Startling space image of California wildfire smoke plume

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…or as we call it in California, “summer”.

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Took these of the Whittier Fire (the smaller red outline on the sat image) on Saturday, the day it started, about an hour before sunset and then at 11PM. From the nature preserve, 1/2 mile from my house. Full moon that night - or near enough - and cloudless, other than the fire’s pyrocumulus.

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It ain’t just California on fire.

Also:
Each of the orange and red dots is also a fire, just not classified as “of note”. Red means that they started in the last 24 hours:

http://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/dmf-viewer/?siteid=5131184402955244847&mode=d

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