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Bushfires Raging in Southeast Australia

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Jan 27, 2003
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2024-01-19 12:00:00
January 19, 2003

This Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) image gives some idea of the broad reach of the smoke from the fires burning in southeastern Australia. Thesmoke (more yellow in color than the cloudsit shares the skies with) on January 19, 2003, was being drawn eastward by the low pressure system visible to thesouth (left). Over subsequent days, the wind has shifted, first drawing the smoke towards the southwest, and then reversing course, once again pushing the smoke eastward.

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Image provided by the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE

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