The 2009 wildfire season roared to life in Alaska on 02 July – 03 July 2009, with a number of very large and very intense fires breaking out across interior portions of the state. A ridge of high pressure was in place over the region, allowing Fairbanks to experience a high temperature above... Read More

Well, not really — but a very interesting cloud plume formed yesterday and streamed off the 20,318-ft (6194-m) summit of Denali (“Mt. McKinley”) in southern Alaska on 10 June 2009, which almost had the  appearance of a volcanic eruption plume. GOES-11 visible images (above) showed this thin cloud plume spreading... Read More

The Mt. Redoubt volcano in Alaska experienced its 19th explosive event (in a series that began on 23 March) on 04 April 2009. GOES-11 visible, 3.9 µm shortwave IR (IR2), 10.7 µm IR window (IR4), and 10.7-11.0 µm “split window difference” images (above)... Read More

The Mt. Redoubt volcano (located about 100 miles southwest of Anchorage, Alaska) produced a series of explosive eruptions beginning around 06:38 UTC on 23 March 2009. GOES-11 10.7 µm IR images (above) showed a few of the volcanic eruption clouds, which exhibited IR... Read More