Stories by Scott Bachmeier
Thick smoke from the Georgia fires
While the large (472,000 acre) Sweat Farm Road / Big Turnaround fire complex continued to burn for the 17th consecutive day south of Waycross, Georgia, a second fire (the 6000-acre Roundabout fire west of Waycross) was also beginning to produce very thick smoke on Read More
April 2007: A month of Northern Hemisphere water vapor images
An animation of 3-hourly water vapor channel image composites from AWIPS during the entire month of April 2007 (25.5 MB QuickTime animation; 1280×1024 screen resolution required) shows the diverse variety of synoptic scale features that affected the Northern Hemisphere during that... Read More
Day 15 of Georgia’s “Sweat Farm Road” Fire
The Sweat Farm Road / Big Turnaround fire complex (that started on 16 April 2007) has become the largest wildfire in Georgia history, burning over 472,000 acres so far. A series of daily (21:45 UTC) GOES-12 visible images... Read More