Satellite Image Smoke Across Us

In the morning of august 20 2020 in california the geostationary operational environmental satellite 17 captured a natural color image of the smoke above.

Satellite image smoke across us.

A true color image of the united states appears on the top image. Nasa helps develop and launch the goes series of satellites. These images show just how far across north america winds have carried the thick plumes of smoke. 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.

Conus full disk northern rockies upper mississippi valley great lakes northeast southern rockies southern plains southern mississippi valley southeast u s. 22 2020 captured a view that showed a pall of wildfire smoke covering most of. Wildfires across california oregon and washington have killed at least 35 people scorched over 4 million acres and sent thick smoke and ash into the skies. See current wildfires and wildfire perimeters on the fire weather avalanche center wildfire map.

That s a distance of nearly 2 000 miles. 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 america south. Goes 17 is operated by the national oceanic and atmospheric administration noaa. On september 7 2020 noaa nasa s suomi npp satellite provided two different views of how fires are affecting the u s.

Huge stretches of the us are filled with smoke primarily from western wildfires. Smoke has spread across large swaths of the western united states and the pacific ocean. Interactive real time wildfire map for the united states including california oregon washington idaho arizona and others. Smoke plume locations are based on information from the noaa hazard mapping system based on polygons drawn around smoke detected in satellite imagery.

In general this represents the presence of smoke in the overall column of air at those locations. A nasa satellite view shows just how severe it is. Smoke is seen hovering over much of western north america and central canada. Nasa satellite images show impact of california wildfire smoke across us nasa s terra satellite on monday aug.

The suomi npp satellite is run by nasa and the national oceanic.