Goes West Satellite California Fires

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Goes west satellite california fires.

Fires spread across california. Users can subscribe to email alerts bases on their area. As the southwestern united states endures a record heat wave the. More than 85 wildfires are raging across the west coast burning hundreds of thousands of acres.

Nasa lance fire information for resource management system provides near real time active fire data from modis and viirs to meet the needs of firefighters scientists and users interested in monitoring fires. As record high temperatures hit the u s. There are six fire detection satellite platforms used for our map. Real time satellite fire monitoring goes west.

Imagery available about 25 minutes later. The data they provide is for california only. West coast this past week wildfires began to spread rapidly in. Visit insider s homepage for more stories.

Earth orbiting satellites have spotted the wildfires ripping through northern california. Satellite images of the blazes reveal their astonishing scale. Fire data is available for download or can be viewed through a map interface. To the north a mid latitude cyclone spins over the gulf of alaska while hurricane genevieve continues its path toward baja california.

Goes east conus full disk northern rockies upper mississippi valley great lakes northeast southern rockies southern plains southern mississippi valley southeast u s. East coast canada northern atlantic ocean caribbean gulf of mexico puerto rico tropical atlantic ocean eastern pacific ocean mexico central america south america north south. Goes west imagery 30 minutes. Goes 16 goes 17 modis and viiirs.

The fire and smoke map shows fine particulate 2 5 micron pm 2 5 pollution data obtained from air quality monitors and sensors information is shown on both the epa s air quality index scale using the nowcast aqi algorithm and also as hourly pm 2 5 concentration values. Goes 17 goes west is monitoring a number of fires in california. 19 2020 noaa s goes west satellite captured the above geocolor image loop of massive wildfire smoke plumes billowing from california and areas of the rocky mountains. The fires have killed at least seven people injured many others and destroyed buildings in california oregon and washington.