On 30 May 2012, the Whitewater-Baldy Fire complex was declared to be the largest fire on record for the state of New Mexico, having burned over 170,000 acres. On the previous day (29 May), GOES-13 0.63 µm visible... Read More
McIDAS images of 1-km resolution GOES-13 0.63 µm visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) revealed widespread areas of blowing dust moving southward across northern Mexico on 14 May 2012. This airborne dust was generated along a southward-moving cold front, which... Read More
McIDAS images of 1-km resolution GOES-13 0.63 µm visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed the large smoke plume emanating from the so-called “County Line Fire” that was burning in the Pinhook Swamp area (along the Baker and Columbia County line) of the Osceola National Forest in... Read More
Strong winds across southern Colorado (gusting as high as 60 mph at Alamosa, and 77 mph at Monarch Pass) were creating areas of blowing dust across that region on 06 July 2012. A 1-km resolution Aqua MODIS true-color Red/Green/Blue (RGB) image (above; viewed using Google Earth) showed a long plume of blowing... Read More
