Huge wildfire smoke cloud blocks view of California from space as 650 blazes rage in the state

California has had more than 13,000 lightning strikes since 15 August, sparking more than 650 wildfires

The LNU complex has burned 347,630 acres and is around one-fifth contained while the SCU Complex has destroyed 343,965 acres and is just 10 per cent contained.NOAA-NASA's Suomi NPP satellite tracks aerosols over the US from this month's California wildfires

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