What would eventually become the largest wildfire in Georgia history (the 472,000 acre Sweat Farm Road / Big Turnaround fire) began to burn in southeastern Georgia (in central Ware county, just south of Waycross, station identifier KAYS) during the afternoon hours on Read More

The MODIS Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) product from the IDEA site (above) showed elevated AOD values over the western Gulf of Mexico on 13 April 2007. This AOD signal (note the hazy appearance on Read More

An IDEA MODIS Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) image (above) depicted elevated AOD values of 0.6 to 0.8 over parts of the Southeast US (especially the northern half of Georgia) on 29 March 2007. Smoke from Read More

Another case of blowing dust was noted across the southern Texas panhandle region on 01 March 2007. Unlike the stronger blowing dust event in that same area 5 days earlier (on 24 February), there was no distinct dust cloud feature evident on... Read More