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Click unhide on vertically integrated smoke. Bay area looks like it might become atrocious this weekend. edit: another great visualization https://www.star.nes
by pizza 5y ago
Click unhide on vertically integrated smoke. Bay area looks like it might become atrocious this weekend.
edit: another great visualization https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/sector_band.php?sat=G17§or=psw&band=GEOCOLOR&length=240 https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/sector_band.php?sat=G1...
- divbzero 5y agoThey should unhide one of the layers by default.
- guerrilla 5y agoYep, everyone I've forwarded it to so far has asked why it doesn't show anything.
- ourmandave 5y agoAnd draw the border with a wider black sharpie.
- agwa 5y agoNote that vertically integrated smoke includes high-altitude smoke so it might not reflect air quality near the surface. Use near surface smoke to see how bad the air will be to breathe. Indeed, it looks like a sea breeze is currently keeping near surface smoke out of some parts of the Bay Area.
- medmunds 5y agoThere are also several sites that repackage the NOAA smoke forecast data in friendlier (and/or faster loading) visualizations. E.g., https://www.sfchronicle.com/air-quality https://www.sfchronicle.com/air-quality superimposes wind, and also toggles between smoke forecast and real time PM2.5 measurements from the PurpleAir sensor network.