Wildfire Smoke West Coast Weather Satellite

A vast pall of smoke from the west coast wildfires has been captured in a remarkable satellite image.

Wildfire smoke west coast weather satellite.

The image tweeted by the national weather service weather prediction center shows smoke. Here is a visible satellite image valid at 2pm pdt showing the vast extent of the wildfire smoke. 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. 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.

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. 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. To the north a mid latitude cyclone spins over the gulf of alaska while hurricane genevieve continues its path toward baja california. 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.

The national weather service weather. And parts of canada covered in smoke from growing wildfires while hurricane sally makes landfall in the gulf coast and several. A cyclone forming a thousand miles off the west coast of the united states met with clouds of smoke from the massive wildfires. As the southwestern united states endures a record heat wave the.

The area in the orange contour is smoke in the mid upper levels of the atmosphere that has reached. For low cost sensor data a correction equation is also applied to mitigate bias in the sensor data. Dramatic satellite images show the. 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.