{"id":566,"date":"2011-04-17T13:56:22","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T18:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2011\/04\/17\/110417-firemap\/"},"modified":"2011-04-17T13:56:22","modified_gmt":"2011-04-17T18:56:22","slug":"110417-firemap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2011\/04\/17\/110417-firemap\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Map"},"content":{"rendered":"
I’ve been tracking wildfires in West Texas via Weather Underground’s interactive mapping feature<\/a>. If you’re not familiar with it, check it out when you have a moment.<\/div>\n
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When you initially visit the preceding link, you’ll see a generic Google Map. Use the “Map Controls” located beneath the map to select which options you want to display. If you click on the “Fire” option, you’ll then get a set of related options including displays of smoke cover, fire perimeters, and satellite detected fires. I think the first and last feature are most helpful in staying current with the ongoing blazes; the second option shows a [depressing] picture of how much acreage has already gone up in smoke.<\/div>\n
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The map is usable on a smartphone or iPad, but barely. It’s slow to load and navigate. But on a desktop computer, it’s very responsive.<\/div>\n
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Of course, what many of us may not realize is that we in West Texas aren’t alone in being threatened by wildfires. As the map below shows (a snapshot from just a few minutes ago), the interior of Mexico is also being plagued by fire. Indeed, much of the smoke cover that’s hitting the Texas Gulf Coast is coming from those fires.<\/div>\n
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I don’t think I need to remind you…pray for rain!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been tracking wildfires in West Texas via Weather Underground’s interactive mapping feature. If you’re not familiar with it, check it out when you have a moment. When you initially visit the preceding link, you’ll see a generic Google Map. Use the “Map Controls” located beneath the map to select which options you want to… Continue reading Fire Map<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-west-texas","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}