Dry winds and drought-stricken grasses are fueling wildfires ravaging Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas this month, according to NASA's Earth Observatory.
The natural-color image is it shared is overlaid with red boxes indicating where heat signatures indicative of fire were detected by MODIS.
The false-color image combines visible and shortwave infrared light, with active fires appearing orange, burn scars are brown, unburned vegetation is green, lakes and reservoirs are navy blue and developed areas are gray.NASA said the Kidd Fire is one of seven that have been group into the Eastland Complex, igniting on March 17 and moving across more than 42,000 acres including most of the town of Carbon.
"On March 20, strong winds fueled new fires in grasslands in Oklahoma, Arkansas and Texas. The time-lapse imagery below from the GOES-East weather satellite shows smoke streaming north on strong southerly winds," NASA explained. By March 21, more than 11,000 acres had burned in the Big L Fire near Lipan, Texas. While much-needed
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