Post #4132076

2026-07-27 07:58 UTC

There's a AI/LLM generated website and app called Current Wildfires (.com) doing the rounds on #Climatediary / #climatechange Mastodon. Just FYI if you use this: it's just a frontend for public ESA Copernicus Sentinel and NASA VIIRS data. And as so often with this "vibe coded" things it's not entirely what it says it is. Take the current fire in St. Petersburg for example. It's wild indeed, but Wildberries. Not Wildfire ;-)

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@pettter@social.accum.se 2026-07-27 08:13

@Pepijn@mastodon.online Does it also show the Jazan refinery fire?

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@Pepijn@mastodon.online 2026-07-27 08:10

If you want a real informative map, with all data these satellites provide instead of LLM slop (like currentwildfires.com) there's the excellent NASA website (link to the Wildberries fire https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:24hrs;@30.521,59.873,13.908z) or a variety of ESA Copernicus offers, like this showing genuine informative accurate historical and current burn areas https://forest-fire.emergency.copernicus.eu/apps/effis.csv/?c=1046806.73,5255362.83&z=13.904401072235014&t=sentinel2&tiles=&forecastActive=false&sourceId=ecmwf&indexId=fdf.ecmwf007.fwi&forecastDate=2026-07-27&rdaFrom=2026-07-26&rdaTo=2026-07-27&rdaDateRange=today&fire=572362&layerInfoPoint&fdcPoint&fdcDate But mostly: check actual relevant journalism ;-) #Climatediary #climatechange #wildfires

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