Satellite view of the CA fires

[Fire Walk With Me]

http://www.space.com/imageoftheday/image_of_day_071023.html

In perspective, the ovoid bowl area just above it is the San Joaquin Valley, which is enormous. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[Whoa_Nelly]

1. That is an amazing photograph!

And, yes, that's the San Joaquin Valley.
I live there.

[BrotherBuzz]

2. That ovoid bowl area is the San Joaquin Valley and Sacramento Valley...

We call it the Central Valley. A line between Lake Tahoe and San Francisco might be considered the dividing point between the two, where the Sacramento and the San Joaquin rivers meet in the delta.

[Whoa_Nelly]

3. Here's another

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16344

And from NOAA, image links:
http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Fires/US_California/
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16344

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. Ouch-- Great photos!

I find the shapes of smoke through atmospheric currents to be beautiful, but I wish that this wasn't the source.

[Tyler Durden]

9. Wow, I did some time in Camp Pendleton.

By the way, watch yourself out there. I don't want to have to break in any replacements on my "DU CRUSH LIST."

[Whoa_Nelly]

12. Am safe and several hundred miles away from the fires

Thanks for thinking of me

[Tyler Durden]

13. I'd have checked sooner if I remembered you lived near there.

On this thingy it sometimes gets hard to think of people as living 1000's of miles away.

Glad to hear you will not be scorched.

[commander bunnypants]

15. I did some time at Balboa Naval Hospital

Be careful friends


CB

[CRF450]

5. Any night time sat photo's?

[Fire Walk With Me]

6. I'm sure there are, but I don't know the links.

I found the OP photo while I was browsing space.com, not looking for fire pix. Anyone else?

[intheflow]

7. Did you know the Falkland Islands are also on fire?

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/Images/

It's tragic to see these large fires, but the NASA site has some amazing photos of the whole planet. Thanks for posting the link to you photo source.

[Popol Vuh]

8. Port of Los Angeles

Looking at the pics Whoa_Nelly posted. See where it indicates Los Angeles? Follow that cost line south until you see the Palos Verdes/San Pedro peninsula. On the south side of that point underneath that smoke is the Los Angeles/Long Beach harbor.

Here's a photo I took while at work yesterday late afternoon. The sun is just above San Pedro.

[BrklynLib at work]

10. All I can say is "Holy crap!!!" While visually stunning it is scary as hell.

[Inchworm]

11. Wow

not a cloud in the sky!

I feel for those people living in SoCal. :hug:

:hi:

[BarenakedLady]

14. Scary

Those are amazing photos.