Satellite View Of Smoke Over West Coast

The red contour is the dense smoke near the west coast.

Satellite view of smoke over west coast.

Wildfires continue to rage in the western united states. How to use this map. Coverage area depictions are approximate. West coast wildfires visible from almost 1 million miles away as smoke spreads over 4 000 miles wildfires are currently raging across hundreds of thousands of acres of the western united states.

Click on a region to view images and animations for that region. Satellite images show massive amounts of smoke engulfing the west coast of the u s. And extending hundreds of miles over the pacific ocean. Satellite images show smoke from the west coast wildfires being carried out to sea and sucked into a cyclone more than 1 000 miles offshore.

The smoke had traveled over 1 300 miles. On september 9 2020 the moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer modis on nasa s terra satellite captured this natural color image of thick smoke streaming from a line of intense fires in oregon and california. Many communities in the region are facing extremely poor and sometimes hazardous air quality. The national weather service weather.

West coast alaska central alaska southeastern alaska northern pacific ocean hawaii tropical pacific ocean southern pacific ocean. 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. Air quality pm 2 5 information from official monitors is shown as circles air quality pm 2 5 information from temporary monitors placed by agencies during smoke events is show as triangles air quality pm 2 5 information from low cost sensors is shown as squares large fire incidents as fire icons satellite fire detections as small glowing points and smoke plume. Smoke from wildfires blankets much of the west coast in this photo captured on sept.

Satellite views show wildfire smoke from west coast has spread all the way to michigan. Active storms ts gamma hu marie goes west pacus full disk pacific northwest pacific southwest u s.