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Posted by: Ames Dec 11 2005, 09:35 PM

Didnt expect it to show up so clearly!

Easy to spot on this weather image from the Met Office

Posted by: djellison Dec 11 2005, 10:50 PM

We were in London this weeked - and we looked very hard on the train on the way back to Leicester (should have gone fairly close) but we didnt see anything...it was dark so we'd probably only have seen flames, but we saw nothing. Quite a few people injured - million of gallons of fuel went up, supposedly heard in HOLLAND

I'm hoping for a clear day tomorrow so that Modis on Terra and Aqua see something.

http://130.92.54.203/rsbern/noaa/dw/realtime/current/n1bcurr.jpg

WOHHH
http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?AERONET_Lille/2005345/AERONET_Lille.2005345.terra.250m.jpg


Doug

Posted by: Sunspot Dec 11 2005, 11:36 PM

http://saturn.unibe.ch/rsbern/noaa/dw/realtime/n1b/N18_20051211135043-fc-corrected.jpg
Another clear view.

Posted by: djellison Dec 11 2005, 11:45 PM

We were at the Ice Rink outside the Natural History museum at about 1230 and we saw no sign of anything in the air then - it was a lovely clear day - and the train we took would have gone very close, certainly under all that smoke, but we didnt see a thing. I'm just amazed and glad no one has died.

I'll try and collate all the imagery over the next week and see if I can make a big fading movie. It must be like a horror film down there...


Doug

Posted by: Sunspot Dec 12 2005, 12:40 AM

Im sure I saw a picture taken high above London, probably from a helicopter and the smoke was clearly visible. I think it was on the BBC website - couldnt find it again though.

Posted by: djellison Dec 12 2005, 10:17 AM

0900 :
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham.weather/etc11m/nl11-msg-0900-uk.html

1200 :
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham.weather/etc11m/nl11-msg-1200-uk.html

1500 :
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham.weather/etc11m/nl11-msg-1500-uk.html

Posted by: djellison Dec 12 2005, 01:04 PM

Smaller SW heading plume today

http://130.92.54.203/rsbern/noaa/dw/realtime/n1b/N18_20051212115931-fc-corrected.jpg

Posted by: ljk4-1 Dec 12 2005, 02:19 PM

Smaller SW heading plume today

http://130.92.54.203/rsbern/noaa/dw/realtime/n1b/N18_20051212115931-fc-corrected.jpg

Posted by: djellison Dec 12 2005, 02:49 PM

A major fuel depot caught fire - millions of gallons of fuel burning away. 20 individual fires in all, 10 of which are now out, the remaining ten may take up to a few days to put out.

No sure how or why it went up yet - but the explosions were heard from miles away.

Doug

Posted by: ljk4-1 Dec 12 2005, 03:29 PM

London is completely blanketed by the black plume of smoke from Europe's worst
peacetime fire in this Envisat image, taken within five hours of the blaze
beginning.

Full story at:

http://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEMTBYVLWFE_planet_0.html

Posted by: blobrana Dec 12 2005, 04:56 PM

>>millions of gallons

70 millions of gallons exploded.
One explosion measured 2.5 on the Richter scale - its the biggest European fire since WW2.

Posted by: mike Dec 15 2005, 02:31 AM

WW2? What's that?

I'm in America and I heard about the explosion(s)..

Posted by: Ian R Dec 15 2005, 02:56 AM

WW2?  What's that?

I'm in America and I heard about the explosion(s)..

Posted by: mike Dec 15 2005, 04:07 AM

I was kidding. But maybe so were you. Oh, what a tangled web I've woven. I shall never joke at another's expense again. Unless the other deserves it.

Posted by: Ian R Dec 15 2005, 04:42 AM

I was kidding.  But maybe so were you.  Oh, what a tangled web I've woven.  I shall never joke at another's expense again.  Unless the other deserves it.

Posted by: dvandorn Dec 15 2005, 08:21 AM

I have a cousin who lives in England. After the explosion and fire, my mother forwarded to me some e-mails he had sent his own parents.

It seems that, every morning, my cousin would take a morning jog to the end of the local road and back -- and the end of the local road was the outer boundary of the fuel farm. From jogging it hundreds of times, he knows it's exactly 1.4 miles from his back door.

They had a little greenhouse attached to their main house. The frame still stands, but most of the glass shattered out. Many of the windows in the back of the house (facing the explosion) were also shattered, and one door frame was bent a bit.

Other than that, my cousin and his wife are fine. But it surely brought the thing home to me when I read his descriptions.

-the other Doug

Posted by: djellison Nov 12 2007, 07:31 PM

Today a fire broke out at the Olympic site in East London...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7090725.stm

I said to my colleage Josh "Oo - 1230, Terra and Aqua might get a picture - when are their passes...AHH...Aqua will get it at 1300 ish"

By 1530 - bingo - the image was on the Modis website at 500m/pixel and the fire was indeed visible!!!

The 250m image just popped up as well

http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/realtime/single.php?2007316/crefl2_143.A2007316130500-2007316131000.250m.jpg

Posted by: nprev Nov 12 2007, 07:57 PM

Wow...that's a big one! Heard about it on the news, unreal that we have publicly available overhead imagery so quickly...

Posted by: tedstryk Nov 13 2007, 11:41 AM

What happened...did some poor soul not make sure their cigarette was out?

Posted by: djellison Nov 13 2007, 11:43 AM

I think the ego of the guy who kicked off our Olympic bid, Seb Coe, exploded.

Doug

Posted by: nprev Nov 13 2007, 12:17 PM

Oooo...burn!!!