

Heat source maps show the locations of wildfires and areas of high temperature using the latest data from FIRMS and InciWeb. Tropical storm tracks are created using the latest forecast data from NHC, JTWC, NRL and IBTrACS. Blue clouds at night represent low-lying clouds and fog. EUMETSAT Meteosat images are updated every 15 minutes.Ĭity lights at night are not real-time. Live weather images are updated every 10 minutes from NOAA GOES and JMA Himawari-8 geostationary satellites. Explore beautiful interactive weather forecast maps of wind speed, pressure, humidity, and temperature. Watch LIVE satellite images with the latest rainfall radar. Track tropical storms, hurricanes, severe weather, wildfires and more. If you know of any others that should be here, let me know in the comments.Zoom Earth visualizes the world in real-time. There are more, dozens more, but these are the ones I find my self turning to when I need a quick update. National Wildfire Coordinating Group fire map Clicking on a fire shows a LOT of data about the fire: name, acreage, %-contained, fire management group assigned, total personnel on the fire, land ownership, etc. National Wildfire Coordinating Group G ood maps showing final extent of fires using Public NIFS perimeters (which seem to be from ARCGIS). (Here I've turned on the fire perimeter map, but if you turn on the "housing density" layer, you can see part of the wildland/urban interface problem.)ĥ. Use the layer selector widget in the upper right corner of the map. Another great map with many (and different!) layers that you can turn on/off. San Diego Supercomputer Center / NSF firemap. ARCGIS fire mappers With live wind and fire perimeter updates. If you're an advanced satellite image user, this is the place to go to get different spectral views. NASA Worldview daily summary images, with many overlays of data. I like to click through hour-by-hour to see a time-lapse of the conditions.Ģ. They also update their images very frequently. Zoom.earth – excellent near-real-time imagery – they also have a Fire Spots layer that you can turn on/off. Without going into all the detail, here's my list of favorite sites, and a brief explanation about what each has that's special.ġ. Dan, what's the best site to monitor the fires in California? Or a variation on that: What's the best site to get satellite images of fires in the West?
