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This GOES-18 fire temperature composite satellite image taken 6:30 p.m. EDT. on Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023 and released by NOAA, shows hot land surface temperatures in red on the Hawaii Islands.
On August 4, 2023, at 11:01 a.m. HST (UTC 21:01), the first of many small fires ignited on Maui. A 30-acre brush fire was reported adjacent to the Kahului Airport in a field. By 9:29 p.m. HST (UTC 07:29), the fire was reported 90% contained, [56][57][58] but many flights out of the airport were delayed to August 11.
August 10, 2023 at 5:55 AM. ... Several large fires on Maui and the Big Island, partly fuelled by strong winds from Hurricane Dora, ... Hawaii on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023 (Zeke Kalua/County of Maui ...
Like all Hawaiian volcanoes, Mauna Loa was created as the Pacific tectonic plate moved over the Hawaii hotspot in the Earth's underlying mantle. [10] The Hawaii island volcanoes are the most recent evidence of this process that, over 70 million years, has created the 3,700 mi (6,000 km)-long Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain. [11]
The Mauna Loa Observatory was founded on June 28th 1956 as part of the US Weather Bureau. It was established on the northern flank of Mauna Loa at 11,134 ft after 1951-1954 efforts were unable to maintain a summit observatory at 13,453 ft. [1] The Mauna Loa Observatory was developed specifically to monitor solar, atmospheric and meteorological ...
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The Big Island of Hawaii is also battling wildfires, which have caused no fatalities. ... August 14, 2023 at 4:16 PM. ... The Big Island of Hawaii is also battling wildfires, which have caused no ...
August 11, 2023 at 12:36 PM ... (Reuters) -Wildfires on Hawaii's Maui island and Big Island have killed dozens of people, forced thousands of residents and tourists to evacuate, and devastated the ...