Smoke from Australian fires over the South Pacific Ocean

By Scott Bachmeier • 2 January 2020

GOES-17 True Color RGB images [click to play animation | MP4]

Some of this smoke had become entrained into the circulation of an anomalously-deep low pressure system (below).

GFS model Mean Sea Level Pressure anomalies [click to enlarge]

GFS model 500 hPa Geopotential Height anomalies [click to enlarge]

Categories: GOES-17, Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images