NASA Worldview: Satellite Detections of Fire

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Holy fuck, the entire fucking middle of the african continent is on fire right now?!?

[scanny → tossAfterUsing]

Zooming in on some places and taking the lat-long into google maps is interesting. Can't really tell if it's intentional burning or not, I guess it must be with the sheer amount of spot fires.

Here is one for example:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/11%C2%B030'08.2%22S+22%C2%...

[stuntkite → tossAfterUsing]

Madagascar too. Fucking hell.