A reduction in number of “hot spots” – possible fire blazes – was registered by satellites for the second day in a row. MODIS sensors of Terra and Aqua satellites have detected 188 “hot spots” on August 17, with 218 on August 16 and over 300-350 blazes detected daily over the first two weeks of the month. Current reduction in number of possible fire blazes is attributed to better fire situation as a whole, a strong storm font with showers and heavy clouds over the Central Russia preventing the detection of all actually existing “hot spots”. Most fire-hazardous regions are now Sverdlovsk (42 spots detected on August 17), Tula (12), Nizhny Novgorod (11), Vladimir (11) Regions, Republic of Mariy El (11), with a difficult situation still remaining in Ryazan Region. Day-time images of NOAA-19 meteo satellite, received at 14:03 Moscow time, when the smog cleared away, fire blazes and smoke plumes became visible to the south-eastern of Moscow Region and to the north of Rayzan, where even strong rains failed to master the nature. Read More
