{"id":80,"date":"2008-04-22T09:23:05","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T15:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rammb.cira.colostate.edu\/visit\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/04\/22\/fires-in-russia-smoke-in-minnesota\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T09:06:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T16:06:30","slug":"fires-in-russia-smoke-in-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/2008\/04\/22\/fires-in-russia-smoke-in-minnesota\/","title":{"rendered":"Fires in Russia = Smoke in Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/04\/fires-southern-russia.jpg\" alt=\"Many large fires in southern\/southeastern Russia have choked the skies\u00a0with smoke.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"first\">Jeff Braun<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"first\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">Many large fires in southern\/southeastern Russia have choked the skies&nbsp;with smoke. This image (first image) of the fires (locations outlined in red) was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">on NASA\u2019s Aqua<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\"> satellite&nbsp;late last week (April 17, 2008). Most of these fires are&nbsp; agricultural fires&nbsp;set by people, much as we do over here in the late winter\/early spring.&nbsp; However, there are so many buring at the same time&nbsp;with the low, mid, and upper level winds conducive to good ventilation and transport, that this morning&#8217;s GOES West Visible Image (April 22, 2008 &#8211; second image) shows the smoke plume reaching all the way&nbsp;across Minnesota, touching on wester Wisconsin&nbsp;(plume outlined in yellow).<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/04\/goes143020081134jd2fs.jpg\" alt=\"morning's GOES West Visible Image (April 22, 2008 - second image) shows the smoke plume reaching all the way\u00a0across Minnesota, touching on wester Wisconsin\u00a0(plume outlined in yellow).\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Braun Many large fires in southern\/southeastern Russia have choked the skies&nbsp;with smoke. This image (first image) of the fires (locations outlined in red) was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA\u2019s Aqua satellite&nbsp;late last week (April 17, 2008). Most of these fires are&nbsp; agricultural fires&nbsp;set by people, much as we do <a href=\"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/2008\/04\/22\/fires-in-russia-smoke-in-minnesota\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,47,19,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fire-weather","category-geostationary-satellite-discussion","category-miscellaneous","category-moderate-resolution-imaging-spectroradiometer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4719,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/4719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}