Satellite View Of Northern California Fires

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.

Satellite view of northern california fires.

The river complex route complex south complex fork complex and mad river complex fires are raging over a large area of the shasta trinity national forest located west of redding california. So far this year fires have scorched more than 3 3 million acres statewide an area larger than the state of connecticut. Hot spot data uses satellite detection to identify areas of high temperature. Nasa s terra satellite saw a blanket of smoke over northern california from five large fires burning in the region.

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. Nasa images show devastating extent of 1 200 mile smoke satellite images from nasa have revealed the huge devastation caused by the california wildfires raging. The mammoth scale of california s record firestorm speaks to that trend. Zoom into recent high resolution maps of property.

Josh edelson getty as wildfires continue to rage in california satellite imagery shows. Track storms hurricanes and wildfires. Real time satellite fire monitoring northern california click on image to enlarge. View live satellite images for free.

These images are considered raw data with no analysis of fires and. Viirs and modis thermal activity data is not as accurate as fire perimeter data it is collected on a 1km scale but it is updated twice daily. California fires satellite images. In the image shown below smoke.

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