• MODIS Pic of the Day 19 November 2022

    From Dan Richter@1:317/3 to All on Sat Nov 19 11:00:36 2022
    November 19, 2022 - Fires at Neah Bay, Washington

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    In the early morning hours of November 17, 2022, residents living near
    Hobuck Lake in Neah Bay, Washington reported seeing embers floating on
    the wind. The smoking ash turned out to be the result of three
    individual fires that ignited in Neah Bay that morning. Driven by
    strong winds, the fires quickly burnt more than 140 acres and caused
    evacuation of about 100 people, according to the Peninsula Daily News.
    Both the Washington State Department of Natural Resources and the
    United States Coast Guard responded to aid firefighting.

    On November 18, the fires had been sufficiently contained to permit
    residents to return to their homes. The Cape Fire, which was the
    largest and the fastest-growing in the outbreak, had burnt 100 acres
    but had been reduced to 60 acres as of 11:00 a.m. local time. The
    smallest fire, the Johnny Fire, had been quenched by the time it
    reached two acres. The first fire discovered, called the Hobuck Lake
    Fire, initially charged toward a residential area, but ended up burning
    into nearby wetlands and was quenched. The cause of the fires is not
    known.

    On November 18, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
    (MODIS) on board NASA’s Terra satellite acquired a true-color image of
    the Olympic Peninsula of Washington. Red hot spots mark areas where the
    thermal bands on the MODIS instrument detected high temperatures and
    indicate actively burning fire. A long plume of gray smoke rises from
    the fires and is being carried on strong wind more than 155 miles (250
    km) westward over the Pacific Ocean.

    Image Facts
    Satellite: Terra
    Date Acquired: 11/17/2022
    Resolutions: 1km (85.1 KB), 500m (295.1 KB), 250m (930.8
    KB)
    Bands Used: 1,4,3
    Image Credit: MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC



    https://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/individual.php?db_date=2022-11-19

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