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Wildfires in California

Drought, unusually hot weather, and Santa Ana winds fueled wildfires along the Pacific Coast of North America in May.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using data from the Land Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE). Caption by Adam Voiland and Mike Carlowicz.

Published May 17, 2014
Data acquired May 14, 2014

Source:
Aqua > MODIS