The Bleeding Edge

The fire made significant progress towards the south and east overnight. I will present only one image this morning, which I think sums up the situation pretty well. This image has the MODIS data set as of this morning brought into Google Earth. Overlaid on that is the … [Read more...]

Virtually no enlargement of the fire perimeter today up to the noonish satellite passes, according to MODIS. The visible band MODIS image from this afternoon at about one showed smoke drifting across much of northern California: In the UV/IR false-color MODIS … [Read more...]

The southern part of the fire progressed eastward overnight, but there was no heat detected in the formerly threatened parts of Carmel Highlands and Rancho San Carlos. There is a hot spot near White Rock, which may be a back burn. It is now a little over three miles from … [Read more...]

Big Sur Kate has some great dozer maps of the fire as of early this morning. They explain why the fire has made strong progress to the south and east. The newest MODIS images show that that is happening, but the lines are holding elsewhere. This afternoon's MODIS visible … [Read more...]

The noonish MODIS pass found new activity: Unfortunately, the radiant heat data set has not yet been updated, so we can't tell how active the new spots are. It looks like most of the new activity is in the southeast, with one hot spot well to the east of the former fire … [Read more...]