File:Smoke Cloud over the West Coast of the USA.jpg

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Hundreds of fires are raging across California, fuelled by dry heat and extreme temperatures, threatening and/or forcing evacuations of thousands of homes.

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English: Hundreds of fires are raging across California, fuelled by dry heat and extreme temperatures, threatening and/or forcing evacuations of thousands of homes. The wildfires have burned hundreds of thousands of acres of brushland, rural areas, canyon country and dense forest to the north, east and south of San Francisco. Fires also carved their way through the wine country and Sierra Nevada. This image, acquired by a Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellite on 20 August at 18:22UTC (11:22 local time), shows the mind-boggling cloud of smoke generated by the ferocious fires which are engulfing coastal areas of California. The Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellites, with their SLSTR sensors, use infrared detectors to pinpoint active fires and enable to monitor their effects.
Date 21 August 2020 (upload date)
Source Smoke Cloud over the West Coast of the USA
Author European Union , Copernicus Sentinel-3 imagery

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