Wildfire Smoke California Wildfires Satellite Images 2020

Images of wildfires from space show smoke from california to arkansas.

Wildfire smoke california wildfires satellite images 2020. New satellite images show the smoke from wildfires that s drifted 600 miles into the pacific ocean and made california s air quality plummet to very unhealthy and hazardous levels. The recent satellite and aerial imagery below show california blanketed in dense smoke as flames ignite mountain chaparral and desert regions. The omps ozone mapper and profiler suite on the suomi npp satellite provided this sept. Click here to see the latest updates from the western u s.

San francisco kgo we are getting a new perspective of the wildfires raging around the region and the visible impact to the bay area. The aerosols have traveled east. Fires nasa s terra satellite captured this imagery showing smoke from the california fires covering a region approximately 1 214 miles wide on august 20th 2020. A stunning 3 1 million acres have burned this year in california noaa nasa s suomi npp satellite captured these series of images made into an animated gif showing the winds changing.

These landscapes exist within a changing fire. A law enforcement officer watches flames launch into the air as fire continues to spread at the bear fire in oroville california on september 9 2020. The visible smoke imagery is overlaid with active fire detections in red derived from nasa modis thermal anomaly data. The national oceanic and atmospheric administration shared.

Satellite images released by nasa and noaa show wildfire smoke traveling all the way to arkansas. The 2020 california fire season has become the. 7 2020 image of the aerosols released from the wildfires in california.