Jennings Creek Wildfire along the New Jersey-New York border
GOES-16 Nighttime Microphysics + daytime True Color RGB images, from 2131 UTC on 8th November to 2106 UTC on 9th November [click to play MP4 animation]
5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) Nighttime Microphysics RGB + daytime True Color RGB images from the CSPP GeoSphere site (above) displayed the nocturnal thermal signatures (darker shades of violet) of a few wildfires in the vicinity or the New Jersey-New York border — particularly that associated with the larger and persistent Jennings Creek Wildfire along the border — along with the distinct Jennings Creek Wildfire smoke plume that moved southeast across the New York City area and adjacent offshore waters during the day on 9th November 2024. The fire caused some local road closures, and there was 1 firefighter fatality.
GOES-16 Visible images with an overlay of the Fire Mask derived product (a component of the FDCA) (below) also displayed the Jennings Creek Wildfire thermal signature and smoke plume — plots of Ceiling and Visibility showed that this smoke occasionally reduced the surface visibility to 4-6 miles at a few of the New York City area airports (visibility in miles is the number plotted to the bottom left of each 4-letter station identifier).
GOES-16 Red Visible (0.64 µm) images, with an overlay of the GOES-16 Fire Mask derived product and hourly plots of Ceiling and Visibility (cyan) [click to play MP4 animation]
A Pilot Report over far northeast New Jersey at 1550 UTC (below) indicated the presence of heavy smoke (+FU) at an altitude of 1700 ft — which was restricting the flight-level visibility to 1-1/2 statute miles.
GOES-16 Red Visible (0.64 µm) image with an overlay of the GOES-16 Fire Mask derived product at 1551 UTC — and cursor sampling of a Pilot Report at 1550 UTC [click to enlarge]
GOES-16 Aerosol Optical Depth values over the NYC area were occasionally at or slightly above 1.0, as depicted by darker red pixels (below).
GOES-16 Red Visible (0.64 µm) image with an overlay of the GOES-16 Fire Mask and Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) derived products at 1901 UTC — and cursor sampling of the LaGuardia Airport METAR (cyan) and nearby AOD value (yellow) [click to enlarge]