Satellite View Of Wildfires On West Coast

By 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.

Satellite view of wildfires on west coast.

From oregon and the fires around medford to the huge smoke plume and fire around redding to the ferguson fire near yosemite the whole of the western coast looks like it is on fire. Stunning satellite imagery of west coast wildfires shows portland eureka eugene san francisco and sacramento blanked by smoke. Nasa via shutterstock shady fire santa rosa calif. Two large blazes threatened to merge near the most populated part of oregon where more than 1 million acres have burned.

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. To the east coast sept. Noaa satellites caught the giant blob of smoke along the west coast from. That s a distance of nearly 2 000 miles.

Here is a visible satellite image valid at 2pm pdt showing the vast extent of the wildfire smoke the agency tweeted saturday. In this image multiple fires can be seen in the states of california washington and oregon the areas hit hardest by the blazes producing the thick plume of smoke which can be seen traveling westwards. Zoom into recent high resolution maps of property. The area in the orange contour is smoke in the mid upper levels of.

The west coast s wounds are visible from very far afield. Snonoma technology an enivronmental consulting firm in northern california said that current satellite imagery shows direct smoke transport from numerous large wildfires along the west coast. View live satellite images for free. Nasa s epic camera aboard the noaa deep space climate observatory spacecraft captured this photo on sept.

A thick pall of smoke.