Friday, August 24, 2018

Zoom earth

It's always cool to look at the world in satellite view in Google Maps or Google earth, but the pictures aren't live.

Well, Zoom Earth gives you a much more recent satellite image. You can even go back in time. So for example, I can see that on 16 March 2018, while Toronto and southwestern Ontario were free of snow, most of the rest of Canada was still covered in the white stuff.

In the picture above, taken 16 Aug 2018, we see just how much wildfire smoke is drifting from British Columbia into Alberta and right across the prairies and into Ontario. That's Hudson's Bay at top right.

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