The Lewotobi Laki-laki volcano in Indonesia erupted at 0935 UTC on 17 June 2025 — and the radiometrically-retrieved Ash Height product from the NOAA/CIMSS Volcanic Cloud Monitoring site (above) indicated that some of the volcanic ash reached altitudes around 16.2 km (a 1645 UTC Darwin VAAC advisory listed ash to altitudes of FL530 or 53000 ft).The... 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-19 (GOES-East) True Color RGB images along with the Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) derived product from the CSPP GeoSphere site (above) displayed a plume of blowing dust — which was originating from salt flats along the northern edge of Laguna Mar Chiquita in northern Argentina — being transported south-southwestward on 12... Read More
10-minute Full Disk scan GOES-18 (GOES-West) True Color RGB and Near-Infrared “Cirrus” (1.37 µm) images from the CSPP GeoSphere site (above) showed a plume of Canadian wildfire smoke over parts of Alaska on 11 June 2025. This plume of smoke aloft was initially drifting westward across Yukon and Interior Alaska early in... Read More
