Questions and Answers Conncerning Problems in Meteorology
Fire Weather
“California Burnin’ on Such a Summers Day”
by on July 30th, 2008
(Courtesy NASA/MODIS/TERRA – July 26, 2008) Jeff Braun Currently, California has 26 fire incidents…mostly across the northern half of the state. Fourteen of these fires are considered large at the moment (= or > 100 acres…see following map). To date (this fire season – through July 30, 2008), over 750,000 acres of California have burned. Continue Reading
Jeff Braun Many large fires in southern/southeastern Russia have choked the skies with smoke. This image (first image) of the fires (locations outlined in red) was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite late last week (April 17, 2008). Most of these fires are agricultural fires set by people, much as we do Continue Reading