Us Wildfire Smoke Satellite Image
Huge stretches of the us are filled with smoke primarily from western wildfires.
Us wildfire smoke satellite image. The modis instrument on nasa s terra satellite captured this image of smoke from california wildfires blowing westward over the pacific ocean on sept. The suomi npp satellite is run by nasa and the national oceanic. Interactive real time wildfire map for the united states including california oregon washington idaho arizona and others. The space agency s terra satellite on monday captured a view posted in a blog on nasa s website that showed a pall of wildfire smoke covering most of california.
That has traveled to the eastern part of the country. Cnn new satellite images show the smoke from wildfires that s drifted 600 miles into the pacific ocean and made california s air quality plummet to very unhealthy and hazardous levels. A nasa satellite view shows just how severe it is. Here is a visible satellite image valid at 2pm pdt.
Satellite imagery of wildfire smoke from the western u s. See current wildfires and wildfire perimeters on the fire weather avalanche center wildfire map. The western u s s wildfire season has had an intense impact across at least the 10. Hms fire and smoke data products are marked with the time stamp representing the corresponding satellite image acquisition observation time in universal time coordinated utc and date using the julian day calendar 0 365 day of year for regular years 0 366 for leap years.
In the image shown below smoke.