Wildfire breaks out within Metro Vancouver, in the heavily forested Anmore - Belcarra area. Here's a shot showing some of the helicopter action in fighting this blaze. Snapshot at 5:15 PM local. Officially, fire V11470.
Peter Vogel
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Teacher ICT/Physics (ret.). Tech journalist. Meteorology/Ham Radio/Astronomy/Cybersecurity/ADS-B/AI/ Prime Minister's/Premier's SciTech awards. CERN/HST. VE7AFV #OSINT
Comparing firesmoke.ca and map.purpleair.com at around 1:15 PM PT. Former uses wide-scale projections, latter uses ground-level sensors to measure absolute AQI. Yesterday, here in Metro Vancouver, quite a discrepancy as the smoke layer hovered over the city at 1500 feet and above. Today, agreement!
Can confirm, Metro Vancouver is in the smoke today!
Huub Eggen@huubeggen.bsky.social · 13h agoThe northwestern US and neighbouring Canada hidden by smoke from the intense wildfires in Washington and Oregon. Image taken by astronaut Jessica Meir from space station #ISS on 4 August 2026. Original eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... @daveatcogs.bsky.social @petervogel.bsky.social
HamClock space weather and HF signals propagation metrics at 1245 PM PT / 1945 UTC, from Vancouver. The two sets of images show FT8 signals propagation of, and by, for grid CN89, Vancouver, over the past hour, in Mercator and Azimuthal projections. @ve7sar.bsky.social @hamradiotoday.org
WSPR and SSTV monitoring station in my radio room. An SDRplay RDPdx, controlled by SDRuno and fed by an MLA-30+ loop antenna, monitors 20 m WSPR signals on 14.0956 MHz, decoded by JTDX at lower right. Also monitors 14.230 MHz SSTV signals, decoded by RX-SSTV at upper right. Recent images at left.
Lloyd Robertson, the face of TV news in Canada for multiple generations, and for two networks, passes away at 92.
Tod Maffin 🇨🇦@todmaffin.com · yesterdayWhat a huge loss for Canada. Lloyd Robertson was a giant in Canadian news journalism and broadcasting. They don’t make them like Lloyd any more. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Bit of a disconnect between firesmoke.ca particulate projection levels and crowd-sourced PurpleAir ground level actual particulate levels. Both are around the same time this afternoon. Definitely a sharp gradient across the Fraser Valley.
Beautiful shot from METEOR M2-3 as it passed almost directly overhead for Metro Vancouver at 11 AM. Despite smoky conditions the spectral filters on the satellite "see" right through that wildfire smoke, even though the sun looked like you see here, a photo taken on this same date 9 years ago.
About that smoke crossing the border... here's the situation for SW BC / PNW as at 10 AM PT Tuesday morning. Where I am in Metro Vancouver air quality levels have reached the top of the scale. Firesmoke.ca makes projections. These are not absolute smoke particle indications. @spann.bsky.social
Picking up signals from satellite LASARsat on 436.925 MHz as it passes over Vancouver. Address: OK0LSR -> CQ ASCII: ..Greetings from LEO, working on technologies for cleaning up space debris!
Today's goodies from the METEOR twins, one from 2-3 at 11:15 AM and another from 2-4 at 4 PM. Received and processed with my own ground station here in Vancouver (TA-1 turnstile antenna, Nooelec SDR and LNA). Turning warm, and smoky here in the Metro area and beyond. @weathergoddess.bsky.social
Looking ahead to tomorrow morning, 6 AM. The firesmoke.ca projection for SW BC and part of the PNW. Metro Vancouver air quality will take quite a hit. @bobmackin.bsky.social @bcnewsaddict.bsky.social @spann.bsky.social @seattlewxguy.bsky.social
Quite happy with the 7 images, and most of the text decoded, from the overnight @SWRadiogram session carried by WRMI on 5850 kHz. As heard in Vancouver, 0800-0830 UTC with MLA-30+ loop antenna, @SDRplay RSPdx tuner. @popshopradio.bsky.social @radioactiveal.bsky.social @huubeggen.bsky.social
Who knew? Well, I didn't know that radiosondes, weather balloons, are launched from Vancouver Island. Here's the track of such a sonde. It was transmitting on 403 MHz. It may have been launched from Port Hardy. This shot shows its beacon was heard at Langley Airport.
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Beautiful shot, from 800 km up, from METEOR M2-4 at 4:15 PM as the satellite passed well to the W of Metro Vancouver. Note the high pressure ridge forming along the coast which will see a warming trend for the PNW and SWBC over the next several days. @daveatcogs.bsky.social @huubeggen.bsky.social
Ready for @swradiogram.bsky.social carried by WRMI, 5850 kHz, 0800-0830 UTC (that's 1 AM - 1:30 AM PT here in Vancouver). Signal looks surprisingly good at 0415 UTC despite ongoing CME event. Thanks @popshopradio.bsky.social and @radioactiveal.bsky.social for putting together this transmission.
Two shots from the METEOR twins, one at 11:45 AM, the other at 2:45 PM, from 137 MHz radio signal received from passes near Metro Vancouver. Particularly prominent is the wildfire scene in WA State where considerable damage has been done in the Spokane area.
Come Monday we may see somw wildfire smoke in the Fraser Valley and Metro Vancouver area, somwewhat like we had two weeks ago. Here's a prediction from firesmoke.ca for Monday noon.
Numerous wildfires in BC, SK, WA, OR, ID, UT are visible as black spots in this infrared shot at 4:30 PM PT from geostationary satellite GOES-18. Received and processed here in Vancouver with my own ground station. @spann.bsky.social @seattlewxguy.bsky.social @whidbeywxguy.bsky.social
A look across W North America at 3 PM PT, as seen from Russian weather satellite METEOR M2-4. Image received and processed via 137 MHz radio signal here in Vancouver. TA-1 antenna by @wimo_de and radio gear by @Nooelec. After a night of rain it turned mostly sunny, albeit windy, in Metro Vancouver.
Raspberry Pi units running in the home radio room: 2: dedicated big screen HamClock instances. 1: flight tracking via ADS-B and feeding 5 services. 1: Weather satellite images via 137 MHz signals. 1: Weather satellite images geostationary via 1.7 GHz signals. 1: AIS vessel tracking at 163 MHz.
Looks like another radiosonde (weather balloon) from Quillayute on the Olympic Peninsula in WA State came close to Metro Vancouver. I'm hoping one day to recover one of these balloons and the associated radio package by listening for their beacons on 404.6 MHz. @justingeographic.bsky.social
Quick glance at wind gusts and temperatures across the region (PNW/SW BC) this morning at 0930 PT, through Windy.tv. Raining throughout Metro Vancouver.
Some of the images from the current SAKHACUBE-CHOLBON / RS18S SSTV event,sa received here in Vancouver. @SDRplay RSPdx tuner, Yagi antenna with fixed orientation (S, elevated at 40 degrees), SkyRoof tracking and decoding.
Today's full disk false color beauty from GOES-18. Received and processed from 1.7 GHz radio signal here in Vancouver with my own ground station based on gear from @Nooelec. Prominent just above centre is Hurricane Genevieve, tracking westward towards Hawaii. @weathergoddess.bsky.social
Four shots from today's passes by the METEOR twins, three to the west and one far to the east. Vancouver Island is prominent in three of the four images. Received and processed from the 137 MHz radio signal of these satellites with my ground station here in Vancouver. @spann.bsky.social
Continuing USAF military aircraft action over Europe and the Middle East. At 0445z Friday morning we see five C-17 Globemasters, three refuelers (two KC-135, one KC-46A). Also seeing three Saudi military/government aircraft with HZ/HZM callsigns.
