Smoke Over Seattle Satellite

In washington winds up to 50 miles per hour pushed smoke from the fires to the east across the mountains and into the cities of the puget sound region.

Smoke over seattle satellite. Leaflet powered by esri usgs noaa. Published by pnw smoke cooperators. Air quality smog blog moderately dense to dense smoke covered parts of northern washington idaho and southern british columbia on august 19. Get the latest visible satellite for washington providing you with a clearer picture of the current cloud cover.

Skies also appear smoky over seattle and visible smoke travels as far as spokane. The fire and smoke map shows fine particulate 2 5 micron pm 2 5 pollution data obtained from air quality monitors and sensors information is shown on both the epa s air quality index scale using the nowcast aqi algorithm and also as hourly pm 2 5 concentration values. According to the u s. Smoke obscures much of the pacific northwest.

Ash fell around seattle and the air took on the smell of a campfire. Usfs air quality webcam images. It has not moved much over the course of the day. Super massive smoke plume hovering menacingly over southwest wa biding its time this is the satellite image of the super massive cloud of smoke and ash hovering over sw washington state.

The city woke up to a grey fog like layer and predictions that the smoke will last through the weekend and possibly into monday. Due to the huge number of wildfires that have broken out over this very dry very hot summer smoke is billowing from the fires that have yet to be extinguished. The expected push of heavy smoke from west coast wildfires arrived across the seattle region late thursday night as air sensors tipped from moderate to unhealthy readings across the area. The visible infrared imaging radiometer suite viirs on the suomi npp satellite acquired this image top on august 15 2018.

8 air quality declined to unhealthy levels in the puget sound region. For low cost sensor data a correction equation is also applied to mitigate bias in the sensor data. The suomi npp satellite s visible infrared imaging radiometer suite viirs instrument captured a look at the smoke obscuring much of the pacific northwest on september 05 2017. Fires had been burning in british columbia since early august 2009.