Smoke plume from the Lateral West fire in the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge. This image was taken on 8 August, with westerly winds driving the smoke over the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Photo from the MODIS spectroradiometer on NASA’s Aqua satellite.
Please click through for a remarkable high resolution view that clearly shows the deeply forested boundaries of the wildlife refuge amidst the dense development of Hampton Roads, Virginia.
this fire is wreaking havoc on my eyeballs. the smoke is so thick sometimes that it appears to be foggy outside…