Glaciers in New Zealand have turned brown due to smoke and ash from the Australian fires
A jet stream transporting large amounts of smoke and ash this week from the blazes in Victoria and New South Wales deposited them along the way in New Zealand's South Island as they traveled east, according to CNN meteorologist Michael Guy.
"We took a flight up over Fox and Franz Josef glaciers and landed on a flat surface not too far from the glaciers, not on a glacier per se. The pilot said he had been up the day before and the snow was white," Rey, who didn't want to give her full name, told CNN. New Zealand's former prime minister Helen Clark tweeted that the impact of Australian ash on glaciers "is likely to accelerate melting.""This is when the whiteness of an object reflects radiation away impacting its temperature," he continues.
People in other parts of New Zealand's South Island woke up on New Year's Day to skies turning an eerie yellow, orange and gray from the bushfires.
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