Large bushfires burning in the southern portion of the state of Western Australia produced three pyroCumulonimbus (pyroCb) clouds on 01 March 2019. JMA Himawari-8 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) showed that the pyroCb clouds drifted southeastward after formation.Himawari-8 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.4 µm) images (below) further revealed the 3... Read More

GOES-16 viewed the development of a house fire over rural Winnebago County in Nekimi Township, west of Lake Winnebago on late Sunday night 24 February 2019.  The animation above shows warm pixel developing starting at 0439 UTC.  One-minute imagery was available because the county falls within the northern part of... Read More

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) Near-Infrared “Snow/Ice” (1.61 µm), Near-Infrared “Cloud Particle Size” (2.24 µm) and Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) images (above) displayed thermal signatures from a large fire at the Marcal Paper Mill in Elmwood Park, New Jersey during the evening hours of 30 January 2019. The fire reportedly began around 2215 UTC or 5:15... Read More

JMA Himawari-8 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm), Shortwave Infrared (3.7 µm) and Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (above) showed the development of a pyroCumulonimbus (pyroCb) cloud from a bushfire that was burning in the eucalypt forests of eastern Victoria, Australia on 25 January 2019. A rapid-scan “Target” sector was positioned over... Read More