Oil refinery fire in Venezuela
![GOES-16 True Color RGB images (credit: Tim Schmit, ASPB/CIMSS) [click to play animation | MP4]](https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/images/2020/04/GOES-16_ABI_RadF_cimss_true_color_2020116_161016Z.png)
GOES-16 True Color RGB images (credit: Tim Schmit, ASPB/CIMSS) [click to play animation | MP4]
VIIRS True Color RGB images from Suomi NPP and NOAA-20 as viewed using RealEarth (below) indicated that the leading edge of the dark smoke plume had drifted westward across the Venezuela/Colombia border after 18 UTC.
GOES-16 Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) images (below) showed the thermal anomaly or fire “hot spot” (small cluster of dark black pixels), which first appeared at 1100 UTC.GOES-16 Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) images (credit: Tim Schmit, ASPB/CIMSS) [click to play animation | MP4]
Black smoke from a refinery fire on Lake Maracaibo.
Seen by GOES-East on Saturday (4-25): https://t.co/QMXKD3VVar. pic.twitter.com/nVcIIHaqCr
— CIRA (@CIRA_CSU) April 29, 2020
Dense and large #smoke cloud from (probably) oil industry related fire, pretty images but none of the operational aerosol retrievals (MODIS,VIIRS, GOES) picked up this event. UV sensors (#OMPS, OMI, #Tropomi) fared better but no aerosol OD retrievals.(h/t @GOESguy) pic.twitter.com/mtqfGVWLM9
— Santiago Gassó (@SanGasso) April 29, 2020