The Bleeding Edge

Overnight, the southern part of the fire moved eastward a bit, The formerly isolated hotspot south of White Rock is expanding. There is a new one south of that. There is still activity near Rancho San Carlos Road. Dark red spots are less than six hours old. Lighter red … [Read more...]

Here's a different way to look at the fire with MODIS data. Instead of just having a binary indication of fire or no fire at a certain location, this Fire Radiative Power (FRP) plot uses colors from violet (weakest) to red (strongest) to categorize the signals it's … [Read more...]

We had a MODIS update around noon, and the only new hot spot outside the old fire perimeter is in the southern part of the fire. Dark red spots are less than six hours old. Lighter red less than 12 hours. Orange spots less than 24 hours. Yellow spots show fire activity for the … [Read more...]

Six am report. The news is not good. Overnight, the fire made widespread advances eastward. Buildings in Rancho San Carlos are threatened in several places, as is White Rock, though from a greater distance. There is also a hot spot near the coast, where activity has been low … [Read more...]

This evening, almost all the new hot spots are in the southern end of the fire. There is no new MODIS activity in the Carmel Highlands, and the new hotspots in Rancho San Carlos appear to be filling in the interior of the fire perimeter. Dark red spots are less than six hours … [Read more...]