[HN Gopher] Kolyma highway in Yakutia, also known as the Road of... ___________________________________________________________________ Kolyma highway in Yakutia, also known as the Road of Bones, is on fire Author : dredmorbius Score : 5 points Date : 2021-07-02 22:41 UTC (18 minutes ago) (HTM) web link (siberiantimes.com) (TXT) w3m dump (siberiantimes.com) | dredmorbius wrote: | With recent news of heat and wildfire in the Pacific Northwest, | I'd looked using the Nullschool Earth weather visualiser for | similar signs elsewhere. The submitted article is one of the few | mentions of this year's Siberian forest fires I can find. (The | fires have become something of an annual occurrence.) | | The Yakutia region of Siberia is under a staggering amount of | wildfire. The fires seem to have been burning since May, though | by both particulate and CO channels at Nullschool, have exploded | in size and intensity in just the past 48 hours or so (that would | be after the dateline of this article). | | Several videos on the article show conditions on the ground. | | I'm linking two snapshots of current conditions as noted by | Nullschool, showing smoke and more specific combustion channels. | | Particulate channel, shows the location generally of smoke. I've | selected the PM1 rather than PM2.5 channel as the latter is | somewhat noisier, though it's generally what's used for smoke | tracking. Both are fine particulate matter. | | https://earth.nullschool.net/#2021/07/02/2200Z/particulates/... | | CO channel, where carbon monoxide is a much more specific | indication of where there is current combustion. These signal | regions themselves are immense. My eyeball estimate is that the | fires cover a region roughly the size of the state of Oregon. | | https://earth.nullschool.net/#2021/07/02/2200Z/chem/surface/... | | It's possible to select SO2 and NO2 channels as well, both of | which also tend to indicate current combustion, though with | specificity intermediate between CO and PM1. | | The region on Google Maps: | | https://www.google.com/maps/@61.9357692,135.147793,8z/data=!... ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-07-02 23:00 UTC)