Grass fires raging in Nebraska.
This is a time-lapse sequence, in infrared, of the state of Nebraska. It's reverse polarity, so the hot fires are black, and high-altitude cold cirrus clouds are white.
The sequence starts in late morning of 12 March and continues to sunset of 13 March.
On the 12th the surface winds were very strong and drove the fires dozens of miles to the southeast. As sunset came, the wind direction changed and drove the fires to the south.
Overnight the winds were fairly light, so fire activity was low.
The morning of the 13th the winds picked up again, but in yet another direction and drove the fires to the north.
Finally, shortly before sunset the wind shifted yet again to drive the fires again to the southeast.
Windy weather and/or red flag conditions are forecast for the next two days.
The largest fire is the Morrill Fire: (half a million acres in a little over one day!)
https://app.watchduty.org/i/85446
Another is the Road 203 Fire:
https://app.watchduty.org/i/85474
Cottonwood Fire:
https://app.watchduty.org/i/85481
https://nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news-articles/large-wildfires-burn-thousands-of-acres-across-nebraska/
https://www.1011now.com/2026/03/14/live-10-am-gov-pillen-tour-wildfires-join-federal-state-local-officials-update/
https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/usfs/map/#d:24hrs;@-97.7,40.9,5.8z
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