Satellite imagery shows a staggering amount of smoke blanketing Northern California on Monday as multiple wildfires raged.

Red, orange and yellow dots seen on National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration maps indicated the fires hot spots across the state. In the image compilation above, smoke can be seen spewing from these fires before rolling across the state and mixing with clouds coming off the coast to the far north and south.

"Those red areas are not actually visible from space," explains Dan Pistus, who helps create scientific visualizations for NOAA. "The scientists have superimposed the fire hot spots onto the imager using the thermal data collected from GOES-16."

GOES-16 is NOAA's new satellite that launched into space in November and began producing imagery in March.

The satellite produces images with a resolution that's four times higher than those produced by NOAA's other commonly used satellites.

"It helps us distinguish the clouds from the smoke," says Dan Lindsey, a research meteorologist with NOAA. "The clouds are more of a white color where as the smoke is more grayish.

Fifteen wildfires in Northern California, many of them in the Wine Country, ravaged homes, businesses, vineyards and farmland Monday, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Thirteen people were confirmed dead and several others were severely burned. Major highways were shut down, and local officials requested help from around the region as Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency.

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