The second VIIRS pass and the MODIS data looks better for the area around the villliage of BIg Sur. First, VIIRS: In the west: Nothing new near the inhabited area around Big Sur. The western part of the fir continues towards the east. In the east: The … [Read more...]

It looks like the first MODIS pass today missed us, and the second one is just about to happen, but I have VIIRS data for today's daylight pass. It doesn't look pretty: In the west: The heat on the good side of the northwestern portion of the fire break looks like … [Read more...]

It took me a while to get the MODIS and VIIRS data sets to download, but I finally have all three IR maps and the official fire perimeter. First, last night's and the nigh before's fire perimeter overlaid on the same Google Earth map: In the west, we see the long skinny … [Read more...]

If last night's satellite images made it look as if this fire was going away, toady's first-pass MODIS and VIIRS ones make it clear that this thing is not nearly over. First, the VIIRS data. It's much higher resolution than the MODIS data, but we only get two passes a day … [Read more...]

[0900: VIIRS data added below.] The news is unequivocally good. First, the Cal Fire fire perimeter data for last night and the night before,  overlaid on each other. Zooming in on the west, where things looked pretty exciting -- and not in a good way -- yesterday … [Read more...]