A comparison of GOES-11 (GOES West), GOES-14, and GOES-12 (GOES East) 3.9 µm shortwave IR images (above) indicated that there were a number of fires burning across parts of southern British Columbia, Canada on 01 December 2009, as confirmed by the NOAA Hazard Mapping System. The 3 sets of images are displayed in the native... Read More
An anomalous ridge of high pressure developed across western North America on 23 September 2009, bringing hot and dry conditions to parts of the Pacific Northwest states — high temperatures at many locations in Oregon were in the 90s and low 100s... Read More
A sequence of daily 250-meter resolution MODIS false color images from the SSEC MODIS Today site (above; also available as a QuickTime animation) shows the rapidly increasing size of the burn scar associated with the Station Fire north of Los... Read More
AÂ wildfire (named the “Station Fire”) had been burning for several days in the Angeles National Forest in central Los Angeles county — and this fire then grew quickly in size from 5500 acres to 35,200 acres during the 29 August –
