Current forest fires in Canada
24 July 2014
This image taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASAs Terra satellite on 23 July 2013 shows massive fires affecting Canada with large smoke plumes and some pyrocumulus clouds drifting North.
The red dots are points of anomalous heat.
Source: NASA Rapid Response- LANCE. (Edited and interpreted by GfMC)
The upper image was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) onboard of NASAs Aqua satellite on 18 July. It shows the fires (red dots) and large smoke plumes drifting East.
The second image is a detail of the white square on the upper part of the first image. A large plume drifting East can be noticed along with pyrocumulus clouds. The brown area by the red dots is the fire scar.
Source: Nasa Earth Observatory
Fores Fire Weather Index for 24 and 30 July, 2014. Black dots are representing active fires which burned on 23 July.
Source: Global Fire and Early Warning System (GFEWS)
Recent Media Reports on Fires in Canada: Note: The hyperlinks on the left side of each news are password-protected (User ID and password to enter the GFMC database are available for partners of GFMC. To obtain the ID and password, please send your query to fire@fire.uni-freiburg.de). The links on the right side (in brackets) are leading to the original news source; sometimes these news are expiring rather swiftly – a reason for the establishment of the internal GFMC database):
- Smoke chokes Yellowknife as forest fires continue to burn (published by http://cnews.canoe.ca 22 July 2014)
- NASAs Aqua Captures 102 Uncontrolled Fires + Cauliflower-Shaped Clouds (MODIS) (published by www.satnews.com 21 July 2014)
- Northern Canada is On Fire, And It’s Making Global Warming Worse (published by www.motherjones.com 18 July 2014)
- Wildfire threatening West Kelowna back down to 250 hectares (published by http://bc.ctvnews.ca 18 July 2014)
- B.C. wildfire evacuation order now covers 2,500 people, 1,100 homes across the Okanagan (published by www.theprovince.com 18 July 2014)
- Wildfires force more evacuations in Western Canada (published by www.torontosun.com 17 July 2014)
- B.C. wildfire roundup: evacuation orders and alerts (published by www.cbc.ca 16 July 2014)
- Graphic: Wildfires raging in North America (published by http://news.nationalpost.com 11 July 2014)
- Forest fire may cause explosion at B.C. oil and gas site (published by www.bnn.ca 10 July 2014)
- NASA satellites show smoke from Canadian forest fires drifting south (published by www.upi.com 10 July 2014)
More reports see GFMC Media page: https://gfmc.online/media-highlights-on-fire-policies-and-politics.html
