Numerous Wildfires Rage in Hot and Dry Pacific Northwest

Smoke plumes from wildfires burning throughout the Pacific Northwest are circled in this image acquired by NASA's Terra satellite on Thursday, July 17, 2014. Click to see detail in a larger, high-resolution image. (Source: NASA) | Updated 7/19/14, 10 a.m. MDT: see new image below | Ignited by lightning strikes on hot and tinder dry forests, more than a dozen large wildfires are raging throughout the Pacific Northwest of the United States and up into British Columbia.