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) revealed nighttime thermal signatures of a fire at a Jim Beam bourbon warehouse in Versailles, Kentucky on 03 July 2019. The fire reportedly began to burn around 0330 UTC (11:30 PM... Read More
An earth-shaking refinery explosion (News story 1, 2) occurred in Philadelphia, PA under variably cloudy skies on Friday morning 21 June 2019. The toggle above shows GOES-16 3.9 µm Shortwave Infrared imagery from the mesoscale sector (with 1-minute imagery) and from the CONUS sector (with 5-minute imagery) at similar nominal... Read More
GOES-16 (GOES-East) CIMSS Natural Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images with an overlay of the Smoke Detection Product (above) revealed curved filaments of wildfire smoke moving southeastward across the Northeast US and the adjacent offshore waters of the Atlantic Ocean on 22 May 2019. The smoke filaments were classified as Medium/High confidence by the... Read More
On 01 May, GOES-17 (GOES-West) Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) and “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) showed the thermal anomaly (or fire “hot spot”) and dispersion of smoke from the first moderate-size wildfire of 2019 in the Interior of Alaska — the Oregon Lakes Impact Area Fire about 7 miles southwest of Fort Greely.... Read More
