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   September 29, 2022 - Fires in Pacific Northwest   
      
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      A robust wildfire season continued across the U.S. Pacific Northwest   
      through late September 2022, spurred by vegetation dried out following   
      a warm summer with sparse rainfall.   
      
      On September 27, 2022, the Moderate Resolution Imaging   
      Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on board NASA’s Aqua satellite acquired a   
      true-color image of smoke pouring from multiple wildfires burning in   
      western Washington state. With moist morning fog lying across the   
      Pacific Coast, most of the blazes were found in the forested Cascade   
      Range.   
      
      InciWeb Incident Information System lists seven large fires active in   
      western Washington as of September 28. These include, from north to   
      south, the Chilliwack Complex which has burned 7,388 acres; the NW   
      Paysayten Complex, on 17,998 acres; the Suiattle River Fire at 80   
      acres; the White River and Irving Peak fires burning on 9,579 acres;   
      MOHR at 6,944 acres; the Goat Rocks Fire at 4,029 acres; and Kalama   
      Fire at 432 acres.   
      
      Each red “hot spot” marks an area where the thermal bands on the MODIS   
      instrument detected high temperatures. When combined with typical   
      smoke, as in this image, such hot spots are diagnostic for an area of   
      actively burning fire. More than 7 hot spots can be seen in this image.   
      This is likely because many of the fires are either “complexes”, which   
      are multiple small fires handled as one larger incident, or may have   
      multiple actively burning fronts in a single incident.   
      
      The last few days have brought cooler temperatures to much of the   
      region, especially in the southern section of Washington, where a cold   
      from moved through on September 28, bringing periods of light showers   
      along with cooler temperatures and higher relative humidity. Cooler   
      temperatures and light rain should prevail for the next day or so   
      before a warming trend returns near the weekend.   
      
      Image Facts   
      Satellite:  Aqua   
      Date Acquired: 9/27/2022   
      Resolutions:  1km (78.9 KB),  500m (266.7 KB),  250m (775.7   
      KB)   
      Bands Used: 1,4,3   
      Image Credit: MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC   
      
      
      
   https://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/individual.php?db_date=2022-09-29   
       
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