Fire Weather Links Page

Welcome to our Fire Weather Links page.

We hope this newly formatted listing helps you more easily find the weather information you are looking for.

If you would like to recommend a site for inclusion, please let us know and we'll consider it.

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Until then, happy "surfing"!

Mike & Barbara (How the Weatherworks educators)

National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) in Boise, ID
http://www.nifc.gov/
There is a multi-agency center in Boise, ID which provides national coordination and other support in fighting forest, grassland, and other natural fires. There is also safety and prevention information, statistics, and descriptions of how remote sensing is used in fire detection.

New Mexico Fires 2000
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/p/nm/20000511/ts/mdf75013.html
NOAA imagery shows the smoke plume at the height of the Los Alamos Forest Fire. Lots of management, political and other fires resulted fro this prescribed burn gone awry. See, for example, May 11, 2000 - http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000511/ts/environment_losalamos_17.html (Reuters story via yahoo).

NOAA - North Dakota Fires 1999
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/misc/991031.html
NOAA GOES-10 imagery shows what forest fires and their results are from a high altitude perspective. Three notable fires occurred near Outlook, Wolf Point, and Sidney in Montana and imagery (including time series) and detailed descriptions, provides a great science lesson.

This page was updated on May 20, 2000

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