The Bleeding Edge

Today, after a two day gap, we have aerial infrared data. And we have not seen such low activity in a long time. In the west: In the east: There are hardly any areas labeled has intense, However, there's a caveat. Because of the cloud cover, the plane was … [Read more...]

Note: more VIIRS and MODIS data has been added below. No aerial IR data again today. Here's last night's official Cal Fire outline, overlaid on the night before's: In the west, the expansion is mostly away from structures: In the east, the gradual push to the … [Read more...]

There was a MODIS pass at 1:40 PDT. If the server is working right, it didn't find any fire. There is another MODIS pass later the afternoon, and a VIIRS pass as well. I'll add those to this post as I get the data. I don't think we're going to get aerial IR data from last night. … [Read more...]

I'm not able to get the aerial infrared data sets this morning, and MODIS is still being balky [Added 0930. I was wrong. MODIS was working fine, but it didn't find any fire overnight, which fooled me. I'll post the map below.], but I have the new offical fire outline and the … [Read more...]