The largest wildfire in Georgia history started on 16 April, and continued to burn on 20 May and 21 May... Read More

The AWIPS 4-panel display of MODIS imagery (above) shows a portion of west-central Quebec, Canada (between Nemiscau Airport, CYHH, and Chibougamau, CYMT) on 18 May 2007. The 3.7µm Band 20 shortwave IR image (upper left panel) and the 2.1µm Band 7 snow/ice image (upper right panel) both indicate a cluster... Read More

GOES-11 6.7µm “water vapor channel” imagery (above; QuickTime animation) revealed a textbook signature of an occluding cyclone over the Gulf of Alaska on 17 May 2007. A... Read More

GOES-12 3.9µm InfraRed (IR) imagery (above; Java animation) showed a large “hot spot” associated with a wildfire in New Jersey — this fire was apparently started by a flare from a military F-16 fighter jet on a routine training exercise (Read More