On January the 2nd, 2010, when the sky was a far deeper blue than it is nowadays, I took the first photos of atmospheric aerosol trails in Northland for this website. They were a shocking and saddening sight, as was the evidence of what was to become the most severe drought in decades in early-2010.
Ten years on and the aerosol trail sightings and the drying out of the environment are still occurring regularly. The photos below were taken on January the 1st, 2020 from Whangarei, Northland.
A number of callers to NewsTalkZB on New Year’s Day 2020 spoke of seeing a haze in the sky in areas of New Zealand that they believed was coming from the fires in New South Wales and Victoria, which is about 2,600-plus kilometers away. Could the haze people were reporting seeing in New Zealand be aerosol trails dispersing, rather…
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