Comments on: Don’t keep the home fires burning

By: Where there’s smoke… | Cosmic Variance | moregoodstuff.info

Where there’s smoke… | Cosmic Variance | moregoodstuff.info — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 09:45:29 +0000

[...] apprised as to what’s happening (e.g., twitter, flicker, website; also see links in my previous post [and comments]) But, perhaps most importantly, it seems like fire fighters have gotten the upper [...]

By: Where there’s smoke… | Cosmic Variance | Discover Magazine

Where there’s smoke… | Cosmic Variance | Discover Magazine — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 06:38:20 +0000

By: michelle mueller

michelle mueller — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:07:44 +0000

I live up above Taos and we have the smoke mainly from Los Alamos. Here we are watching the state burst into new flames almost everyday and the danger to all the critters and humans. We are as dry as I’ve ever seen it and yet last night as I tried to go to sleep with the smell of burning heavy in my room, I could hear someone shooting off fireworks out in the forest…heavy sigh.

By: spyder

spyder — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:12:38 +0000

One of my favorites, that i keep on my menu bar is YubaNet.com/fires…. I retired from the small CA county in which YubaNet was founded and is located. It is really useful to track all the fires, and the prognosis of same.

http://yubanet.com/NMFires/Las_Conchas.php

By: Danny Jacobs

Danny Jacobs — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 18:37:42 +0000

You can also get google earth kmz files or images of same from the forest service.
ftp://ftp.nifc.gov/Incident_Specific_Data/SOUTHWEST/2011_Incidents/Las_Conchas/IR/
These are mainly from the nightly IR overflights.

- Danny (in White Rock)

By: Eric Mjolsness

Eric Mjolsness — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 14:22:09 +0000

Daniel, for mapping wildfires in New Mexico and elsewhere in the US
and Canada, the US Forest Service publishes new maps several times
a day on the web. These maps show fire detection data derived from the
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)
satellite instrument. You can search for “modis fire detection”
if you are interested in seeing them. For highest resolution download
the PDF version and zoom in.

By: Farhad Keyvan

Farhad Keyvan — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:54:21 +0000

Hello Sean:

You must be really worried about you home being few thousand miles away in Qatar. Hope all will be well. Since I read you wonderful recent book on the arrow of time, I have been wondering if you will write a sequel and include some of the newer, and sometimes more daring ideas, on the nature of time itself. Your first book would serve as an introduction but the second one would get into tackling the nature of time and its arrow with modern ideas and tools.

Thanks,

Farhad

By: Janel Johnson

Janel Johnson — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 23:15:17 +0000

Have you checked out GeoMAC? They usually have good perimeter maps.

I hope the wind stays in your favor!