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Archive: Mon Apr 2019

Fires in the Plains

GOES-16 (GOES-East) Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) images and the corresponding GOES-16 Fire Temperature product (above) showed the thermal signatures of widespread fires across the Great Plains (primarily in the Flint Hills of Kansas and Oklahoma) on 08 April 2019. Although fairly small and often relatively brief, some of these fires become quite hot —... Read More