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Satellite images recently shared by the national oceanic and atmospheric administration noaa show massive amounts of smoke engulfing the western coast of the united states and extending hundreds.
One image tweeted by the national weather service weather prediction center shows a massive swath of smoke moving across the united states here is a visible satellite image valid at 2pm pdt.
Smoke has spread across large swaths of the western united states and the pacific ocean.
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New satellite images show the scale of the wildfires ravaging the western united states with smoke clouds reaching as far as michigan 2 000 miles from the pacific coast.
Nasa s earth polychromatic imaging camera epic captured.
The smoke wafting from the wildfires raging across the western united states is a wrenching sight even from nearly a million miles away.
To the north a mid latitude cyclone spins over the gulf of alaska while hurricane genevieve continues its path toward baja california.
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.
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Hms fire and smoke data products are marked with the time stamp representing the corresponding satellite image acquisition observation time in universal time coordinated utc and date using the julian day calendar 0 365 day of year for regular years 0 366 for leap years.
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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.