The West Coast from space (NASA)

[krispos42]

https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/

It's amazing and scary the difference a week makes! The entire West Coast is covered in grey smoke!

Stay safe!

[tblue37]

1. Easier to view:

[tblue37]

2. Dupe. Self deleted.

[littlemissmartypants]

8. Duplicates in Late Breaking News, not in General Discussion, are

the only posts that are subject to locking or self deleting. It’s very common to see duplicate thread posts in General Discussion. Very, very common. If you see a duplicate in Late Breaking News you can alert on it for locking by a host. ❤ lmsp

[tblue37]

9. No. I accidentally posted a duplicate of my own post with the West Coast smoke image. nt

[Bobstandard]

3. Link for updates? Nt

[krispos42]

5. it looks like it updates once a day

I'm assuming it takes several orbits to get a complete picture of the Earth. Clicking the arrow buttons at the bottom let you go back.

Just hit "refresh" once or twice a day.

[mike_c]

4. this is the worst fire season I've experienced

I've seen some bad ones. This is the worst, although the fatalities and property damage are still fairly low compared to the last couple of years (Carr fire and Camp fire especially). But the sheer size and growth of this year's fires exceeds any that I can remember. The air quality is awful. The sky is orange and it's dark-ish all day.

[Princess Turandot]

6. Wanna see it move?

GOES West satellite imagery of the Eastern Pacific, taken every 30 minutes over the last 18 hours. (The most recent is usually around 40 minutes old.):

GOES West satellite imagery of the Eastern Pacific via SLIDER by RAMMB / CIRA at CSU

You'll need to click the 'play' button on the upper left. Give it a few moments to load the imagery panels.

This viewer is a collaboration by a NOAA subsidiary and the University of Colorado. It has weather imagery spanning the globe from the US (GOES West of the Eastern Pacific and GOES East (W. Atlantic), Japan (Himawari-8 over the W. Pacific), and EU's Meteosats of the Indian and Eastern Atlantic oceans. It also has a view looking from over the North Pole, via NOAA/NASA's Joint Polar Satellite System.

[WhiteTara]

7. My niece sent me a picture of Oakland air

and it is orange from the fire glow through the smoke. Same for a picture from Portland from a friend.