1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-17 (GOES-West) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm), Fire Temperature RGB, “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) and Cloud Top Temperature derived product images (above) showed that the rapidly-growing McKinney Fire in far northern California produced multiple (5 or 6) pulses of pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) clouds late in the day on 30 July 2022. The coldest pyroCb cloud-top 10.35... Read More

GOES-18 images shown in this blog post are preliminary and non-operationalGOES-17 (GOES-West) True Color RGB images created using Geo2Grid (above) showed the Oak Fire smoke plume as it spread northwestward across California on 24 July 2022. The Oak Fire has become the largest wildfire of California’s 2022 season.Overlapping 1-minute GOES-18 Mesoscale Domain Sectors... Read More

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-17 (GOES-West) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm), Fire Power and Fire Temperature images (above) showed an unusual early-morning flareup of the Moose Fire in Idaho on 21 July 2022. The Fire Temperature and Fire Power derived products are components of the GOES Fire Detection and Characterization... Read More

GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images (above) showed that a large wildfire burning in far western Manitoba produced a series of 3 brief pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) clouds late in the day on 19 July 2022. The coldest pyroCb cloud-top infrared brightness temperature was -52.1ºC at 0230 UTC.GOES-18 images... Read More