1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-17 (GOES-West) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm), Fire Power and Fire Temperature images (above) showed an unusual early-morning flareup of the Moose Fire in Idaho on 21 July 2022. The Fire Temperature and Fire Power derived products are components of the GOES Fire Detection and Characterization... Read More

GOES-18 images shown in this blog post are preliminary and non-operationalGOES-18 Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 µm) images during the 18 July – 19 July 2022 period (above) showed a series of impulses rotating within the broader circulation of an anomalously-deep low pressure system that meandered over the Bering Strait region. Anomalously-cold air... Read More

GOES-17 (GOES-West) True Color RGB images created using Geo2Grid (above) showed a widespread pall of smoke covering much of southern Alaska — from above-normal fire activity during the preceding several days, amid drought conditions — along with the growth of new smoke plumes from many of the larger fires later in... Read More

GOES-18 images in this blog post are preliminary and non-operational GOES-18 True Color RGB images created using Geo2Grid (above) showed smoke from Alaskan wildfires that had been transported southward over Kodiak Island and the northern Gulf of Alaska. Most of this smoke remained aloft — note that although Kodiak began... Read More