GOES-16 (GOES-East) Day Land Cloud Fire RGB, Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm), “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) with an overlay of the Fire Temperature derived product and Visible images with an overlay of the Fire Power derived product — both derived products being components of the GOES Fire Detection and Characterization Algorithm FDCA — (above) showed thermal signatures associated... Read More

Given all the smoke over United States, one might ask: “Just how much acreage has burned over Canada?” NOAA-21 VIIRS False-color imagery from 28 June, toggled above with True-color imagery, reveal very large burn scars over Quebec to the east of James Bay. In the False-color imagery, the burnscars have a... Read More

The slider above (imagery courtesy Tim Wagner, CIMSS, derived from the rooftop cameras on the AOSS Building in Madison WI) compares the relatively clean air of 27 May with the very poor air of 27 June. Smoke from forest fires, mostly in Canada, has overspread the upper midwest. The motion of that smoke on 27 June is plain to see in the animation... Read More

The Canadian wildfire season has been off to an early start since the beginning of May, impacting air quality in parts of the United States since mid-May. Now, smoke from Quebec fires is back and affecting areas of the U.S. again, transporting as... Read More