According to the National Interagency Fire Center, there were 11 fires with a total of 90,679 acres burning in California on 22 October 2007Â –Â many of the larger fires where described as “0% contained”, and large-scale evacuations were declared from San Diego to Malibu. An animation of GOES-11 visible channel images (above) shows large... Read More
Hot and dry Santa Ana conditions across southern California (with wind gusts as high as 91 mph in Los Angeles county and 87 mph in Ventura county) caused widespread blowing dust/sand (reducing surface visibility to 3 miles at Ontario, station identifier KONT) and created an environment that allowed several large... Read More
Large wildfires continued to burn out of control in parts of Idaho and Montana (NOAA HMS product) on 13 August 2007. GOES-13 visible imagery (above; Java animation) showed smoke (from the previous day of burning) that was trapped in the valleys during the morning hours…with a transition to rapid smoke plume growth as southwesterly boundary... Read More
Ongoing fire activity in parts on Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming (NOAA HMS product) was producing very large smoke plumes late in the day on 12 August 2007. A QuickTime animation of GOES-12 visible imagery (above; 3.9 MB file; 1280 x 1024 screen resolution required) shows several large and dense smoke plumes that grew quickly... Read More
