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Winds of Change Move 963,269 Square Mile Smoke Cloud Over Pacific Ocean – SciTechDaily

NOAA/NASA’s Suomi NPP satellite captured these series of images (made into an animated GIF) showing the winds changing direction on September 6, 2020, when choking clouds of brown smoke began to billow and cascade into the Pacific Ocean. (Dates displayed in l…

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NOAA/NASA’s Suomi NPP satellite captured these series of images (made into an animated GIF) showing the winds changing direction on September 6, 2020, when choking clouds of brown smoke began to billow and cascade into the Pacific Ocean. (Dates displayed in lower left hand corner.) By September 10, the smoke cloud had traveled over 1,300 miles. The square miles of smoke in the image below totals 963,269. That estimate has been computed using the measurement tool within the NASA Worldview applica…

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