[HN Gopher] Kolyma highway in Yakutia, also known as the Road of...
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       Kolyma highway in Yakutia, also known as the Road of Bones, is on
       fire
        
       Author : dredmorbius
       Score  : 5 points
       Date   : 2021-07-02 22:41 UTC (18 minutes ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (siberiantimes.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (siberiantimes.com)
        
       | dredmorbius wrote:
       | With recent news of heat and wildfire in the Pacific Northwest,
       | I'd looked using the Nullschool Earth weather visualiser for
       | similar signs elsewhere. The submitted article is one of the few
       | mentions of this year's Siberian forest fires I can find. (The
       | fires have become something of an annual occurrence.)
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       | The Yakutia region of Siberia is under a staggering amount of
       | wildfire. The fires seem to have been burning since May, though
       | by both particulate and CO channels at Nullschool, have exploded
       | in size and intensity in just the past 48 hours or so (that would
       | be after the dateline of this article).
       | 
       | Several videos on the article show conditions on the ground.
       | 
       | I'm linking two snapshots of current conditions as noted by
       | Nullschool, showing smoke and more specific combustion channels.
       | 
       | Particulate channel, shows the location generally of smoke. I've
       | selected the PM1 rather than PM2.5 channel as the latter is
       | somewhat noisier, though it's generally what's used for smoke
       | tracking. Both are fine particulate matter.
       | 
       | https://earth.nullschool.net/#2021/07/02/2200Z/particulates/...
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       | CO channel, where carbon monoxide is a much more specific
       | indication of where there is current combustion. These signal
       | regions themselves are immense. My eyeball estimate is that the
       | fires cover a region roughly the size of the state of Oregon.
       | 
       | https://earth.nullschool.net/#2021/07/02/2200Z/chem/surface/...
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       | It's possible to select SO2 and NO2 channels as well, both of
       | which also tend to indicate current combustion, though with
       | specificity intermediate between CO and PM1.
       | 
       | The region on Google Maps:
       | 
       | https://www.google.com/maps/@61.9357692,135.147793,8z/data=!...
        
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