To keep informed of other weather-related news affecting the United States I’ve added a new page with several links from other media sources. The news on this page will update automatically. Also if you make it down to the bottom of that page you’ll see I’ve also added a “Breaking Weather News” video [...]

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On this day in…
2006: Offshore winds blew to 40 mph in the Banning Pass. The Esperanza Fire was started by an arsonist. It eventually burned 40,200 acres from Cabazon to San Jacinto. It destroyed 34 homes and killed 5 firefighters.
2003: Santa Ana winds started on 10.25 and ended on 10.27. Gusts of 56 mph were [...]

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Here’s one of the latest images of the fires burning in Southern California, and was captured at 11:25 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time on October 23, 2007 by the MODIS on the Terra satellite. Fires are marked in red. (Click on image for large 500m resolution)

source: NASA - MODIS Rapid Response System

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