GOES-16 (GOES-East) Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) images (above) showed the diurnal variability of thermal anomalies (hot pixels) associated with a cluster of wildfires in southern Quebec during the 02 June – 04 June 2023 period. On the first of these 3 days, several of the wind-driven fires exhibited 3.9 µm brightness temperatures of 137.71ºC... Read More
GOES-16 (GOES-East) Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) and Fire Power derived product images during the 5-day period from 27 May – 31 May 2023 (above) showed the thermal signature of wildfires burning in far southern Nova Scotia — which forced the evacuation of 40% of the residents in the area southwest of Shelburne (near airport... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) Fire Temperature RGB and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (above) showed the intensification of 3 wildfires in northeast British Columbia on 20 May 2023. Two of the fires produced pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) clouds, exhibiting cloud-top 10.3 µm infrared brightness temperatures of -50ºC or colder (shades of red) — which then eventually moved eastward... Read More
True-Color imagery from GOES-East (above, from the CSPP Geosphere site) and GOES-West (below, also from the CSPP Geosphere site) from 1720-1910 UTC show multiple active fires in British Columbia, Alberta and Manitoba, and a wide plume of smoke entrained into a storm centered just north of Saskatchewan (one wonders if the rain from the storm... Read More
