[Image source: Liam Gumley, SSEC/CIMSS] A comparison of two consecutive MODIS true color images from the same day (viewed using Google Earth, above) reveals that numerous small fires developed (and produced smoke plumes) within a relatively short amount of time across the southeastern US on 12 March 2008. The satellite overpass... Read More

Several large wildfires began to burn across parts of western Texas (and also southeastern New Mexico) late in the day on 25 February 2008, as seen by the large number of fire “hot spots” (black to red pixels, with red being the hottest temperatures) on GOES-12 3.9 µm “shortwave IR” images (above).... Read More

According to GOES-12 visible channel imagery (above), less than 12 hours if you’re in the Piedmont region of Virginia and North Carolina, given the presence of dry air and the “warming power” of the increasing sun angle of mid-February! Besides the rapid disappearance of the snow cover on 14 February 2008, there... Read More

A very cold arctic air mass was in place across parts of the Canadian Prairies, with many sites in Alberta reporting surface temperatures colder than -40º F (-40º C) on the morning of 29 January 2008; the leading edge of this arctic air was surging rapidly southward across the Great Plains of the US as a strong cold frontal... Read More