1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images and “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images with an overlay of the FDCA Fire Mask derived product (above) showed that a wildfire southwest of Nenana, Alaska (METAR site PANN) produced two pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) clouds late in the day on... Read More
5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Near-Infrared and Shortwave Infrared images (above) showed thermal signatures of an explosion of SpaceX Starship at the Starbase launch facility in South Texas that occurred at 0401 UTC on 19 June or 11:01 PM CDT on 18 June 2025 (NASASpaceflight.com article).The resulting large fire was hot... Read More
5-minute CONUS sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images and “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images with an overlay of the FDCA Fire Mask derived product (above) showed that the Trout Fire in southwest New Mexico produced a pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) cloud late in the day on 14 June 2025. The pyroCb cloud... Read More
10-minute Full Disk scan GOES-18 (GOES-West) “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images and “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images with an overlay of the FDCA Fire Mask derived product (above) showed that a large wildfire south of La Ronge (station identifier CYVC) in central Saskatchewan produced a pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) cloud during... Read More
