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Low Humidity and High Winds Contribute to Fast Moving Wildfire

These images were taken by the Suomi NPP satellite's VIIRS instrument around 1950 UTC on March 23, 2016, and around 1930 UTC on
VIIRS instrument on Suomi NPP captured a visible image of smoke from fast moving wildfires along the Oklahoma and Kansas border around 3:50 p.m. EDT on March 23, 2016, and around 3:30 p.m. EDT on March 24, 2016.

The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument aboard NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite captured a visible image of smoke from fast moving wildfires along the Oklahoma and Kansas border around 1950 UTC (3:50 p.m. EDT) on March 23, 2016, and around 1930 UTC (3:30 p.m. EDT) on March 24, 2016.

Credit: NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory