True-color imagery, above, shows the evolution of the Remington Fire in extreme northern Wyoming on 22 August 2024. (Geography note: The Wyoming/Montana border in the image is at 45oN Latitude). The initial report for this fire occurred at 8:07 AM (MDT)/1407 UTC on 22 August 2024 (note that the time... Read More
GOES-18 True-Color imagery, above, from the CSPP Geosphere website (link to animation above), shows convection moving over northeastern Wyoming, leaving in its wake a series of smoke plumes: wildfires caused by lightning. The screenshots below were captured from the Real Earth instance of NGFS imagery (link), and they show LightningCast probability and Flash... Read More
Next Generation Fire System (NGFS) Alerts (from this website) for the 24 hours including most of 19 July 2024, above, include an alert for a fire on the island of Kauai. Satellite imagery (note the blue button in the alert above) for the time of the alert, below, includes RGB imagery with... Read More
GOES-18 True Color imagery (from the CSPP Geosphere website) shows the growth of the Lone Rock fire burn scar over rural north-central Oregon (note the Columbia River at the top of the imagery) from 13 July 2024 (when the fire started in Gilliam County) to 17 July 2024. Careful examination of the True Color imagery... Read More
