{"id":15056,"date":"2011-09-06T18:18:24","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T01:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/?p=15056"},"modified":"2011-09-06T18:18:24","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T01:18:24","slug":"stark-images-from-fire-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2011\/09\/06\/stark-images-from-fire-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Stark Images from Fire Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Smoke from space and a wind farm framed by wildfire<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>California&#8217;s fire season is off to a mercifully late start this year &#8212; but <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.laweekly.com\/informer\/2011\/06\/socal_may_see_worst_fire_season_ever_in_2011.php\">could make up for it<\/a> in ferocity.<\/p>\n<p>Two images came across today that underscore the deep impression that fire can make on the landscape. First, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitpic.com\/6h30kd#\">this image from space<\/a> of smoke from the ongoing Texas wildfires.<\/p>\n<figure  id=\"attachment_15063\" class=\"wp-caption center\" style=\"max-width: 402px\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-15063\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2011\/09\/06\/stark-images-from-fire-country\/texassmoke_blog\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15063\" title=\"TexasSmoke_blog\" src=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2011\/09\/TexasSmoke_blog.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"402\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2011\/09\/TexasSmoke_blog.jpg 402w, https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2011\/09\/TexasSmoke_blog-160x106.jpg 160w, https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2011\/09\/TexasSmoke_blog-240x159.jpg 240w, https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2011\/09\/TexasSmoke_blog-375x249.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 402px) 100vw, 402px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A smudge on the Blue Marble: Smoke plumes rise from Texas wildfires.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The photo perspective is looking west, with the shoreline of the Gulf of Mexico visible to the left. It&#8217;s one of a <a title=\"TwitPic - Garan\" href=\"http:\/\/twitpic.com\/photos\/Astro_Ron\">series of photos<\/a> tweeted by NASA Astronaut Ron Garan today.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The other is a <a title=\"YouTube - Canyon Fire\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/98xRxfHsnA0\">video clip<\/a> of the <a title=\"LA Weekly - post\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.laweekly.com\/informer\/2011\/09\/video_canyon_fire_wind_farm.php\">Canyon Fire<\/a>, which has already claimed homes and caused evacuations in Kern County. The video was posted to YouTube by a user identified as GrungeHobbit.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"345\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/98xRxfHsnA0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While spring rains and an enormous Sierra snowpack have largely spared California from the horror of the Texas fire season, fire officials warn that all that water also spurs a burst of vegetation that can add fuel to late-season blazes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smoke from space and a wind farm framed by flames.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"series":[],"affiliates":[],"programs":[],"collections":[],"interests":[],"class_list":["post-15056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-wildfire"],"acf":{"template_type":"standard","featured_image_type":"standard","is_audio_post":false},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.13 - 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