Wildfires Strike California

Credit: Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC, Posted on: Tuesday, 28 October 2003, 06:00 CST Download full size image

Several massive wildfires were raging across southern California over the weekend of October 25, 2003. Whipped by the hot, dry Santa Ana winds that blow toward the coast from interior deserts, at least one fire grew 10,000 acres in just 6 hours. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite captured this image of the fires and clouds of smoke spreading over the region on October 26, 2003. The red polygons indicate precisely where the fires are burning, or have recently burned.

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