Smoke from Canadian wildfires forecast to reach Norway

A man runs in front of the sun rising over the lower Manhattan skyline on Thursday (Seth Wenig/AP)

The smoke from Canadian wildfires that has enveloped parts of the US and Canada in a thick haze is expected to pour into Norway on Thursday, officials there said.

Scientists with the Norwegian Climate and Environmental Research Institute (NILU) used a forecast model to predict how the smoke will travel through the atmosphere.