Next Generation Fire System (NGFS) Alerts (from this website) for the 24 hours including most of 19 July 2024, above, include an alert for a fire on the island of Kauai. Satellite imagery (note the blue button in the alert above) for the time of the alert, below, includes RGB imagery with... Read More
The Community Satellite Processing Package (CSPP) Polar2grid package is being updated and amended. Polar2grid version 3.1 (coming soon to a computer near your desk!) will include the ability to create reprojected images of Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI). The imagery above from AWIPS shows the NOAA-20 AOD... Read More
GOES-18 True Color imagery (from the CSPP Geosphere website) shows the growth of the Lone Rock fire burn scar over rural north-central Oregon (note the Columbia River at the top of the imagery) from 13 July 2024 (when the fire started in Gilliam County) to 17 July 2024. Careful examination of the True Color imagery... Read More
Day Cloud Phase Distinction imagery, above, from the GOES-16 CONUS Sector, shows the development of convection along the southern tier of counties in Wisconsin. LightningCast probabilities (the probability that a GLM observation will occur within the next 60 minutes) start to ramp up shortly after 1800 UTC, a 10% contour appears at 1826 UTC (in Rock County over southern Wisconsin), a 50% contour at 1851 UTC. The... Read More
