10-minute Full Disk scan JMA Himawari-9 AHI Visible, Shortwave Infrared and Infrared Window images (above) showed multiple pulses of pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) clouds that were spawned by a large bushfire in southwest Queensland, Australia on 13 December 2025. The pyroCb cloud pulses exhibited a cloud-top 10.4 µm infrared brightness temperature (IRBT) of... Read More
10-minute Full Disk scan JMA Himawari-8 Visible, Shortwave Infrared and Infrared Window images (above) showed 2 pulses of pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) clouds that were spawned by a large bushfire in Western Australia on 17 November 2025. The pyroCb cloud pulses exhibited a cloud-top 10.4 µm infrared brightness temperature (IRBT) of -40ºC... Read More
The Bald Mountain brush fire had been burning for several days in far western Virginia — but flared up on 12 November 2025, due to ongoing moderate drought conditions and an increase in winds west of a surface trough of low pressure. 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Visible images with an overlay of the Fire Detection and Characterization Algorithm... Read More
A UPS freight plane crashed on takeoff from UPS’s home base in Louisville, Kentucky on 4 November 2025. The plane was bound for Honolulu, Hawaii, and thus had a significant quantity of fuel on board. Eyewitness videos showed a large fireball as the aircraft hit the ground in an industrial... Read More
