Satellite View Of West Coast Fires At Night

The national oceanic and atmospheric administration noaa posted a satellite video friday that shows smoke taking over the entire west coast as massive wildfires burn across multiple states.

Satellite view of west coast fires at night.

9 2020 by the modis instrument on nasa s terra satellite. A satellite photo taken saturday shows a pall of smoke from wildfires ravaging the west coast stretching across the united states as far as michigan. Smoke from wildfires blankets much of the west coast in this photo captured on sept. At night the blue colors represent liquid water clouds such as fog and stratus while gray to.

The red contour is the dense smoke near the west coast a satellite image shows smoke from the western wildfires stretching as far east as michigan. Geocolor is a multispectral product composed of true color using a simulated green component during the daytime and an infrared product that uses bands 7 and 13 at night. Track storms hurricanes and wildfires. The smoke has been wrapped at least 1 000 miles west into a cyclone and.

Pdt on sunday show several places where the active fires were likely occurring that night. During the day the imagery looks approximately as it would appear when viewed with human eyes from space. Nasa s terra satellite captured this image of the west coast of the united states showing the breadth of the fire issues plaguing that area of the country. West coast alaska central alaska southeastern alaska northern pacific ocean hawaii tropical pacific ocean southern pacific ocean goes east.

I didn t think the satellite images of the west coast fires could get more jaw dropping and alarming. That s a distance of nearly 2 000 miles. View live satellite images for free. Two images taken shortly after midnight local california time 0713 utc 12 13 a m.