The photo above shows smoke that is being created by the fires in northern California and southwest Oregon. The red dots represent heat detected by a satellite on the fires. Generally to the west, or left, of the red dots you can see the white smoke being blown to the west. The rest of the white on the image is clouds. Click on the image to see a larger version.
The satellite image was captures in the late afternoon on Friday.
The Rocky Fire is threatening towns northwest of Sacramento, California, including Clearlake, Lower Lake, and Twin Lake.
Dozens of new lightning-caused fires have been detected in the last 24 hours on the Shasta-Trinity National Forest between Redding and Eureka, California in northwest California.
The Stouts Fire 10 miles east of Canyonville, Oregon exploded to 6,500 acres within 12 hours after it started on Thursday.
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Is there a resource that shows a real-time map of smoke like this? I suppose the difficulty is for it to also pinpoint the fires… Perhaps that could be an overlay updated as needed.
Bob, maps of real time smoke would be tough to find, but NOAA produces smoke forecasts.