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Category: Lightning

Thunderstorm over the Arctic Ocean

NOAK49 PAFG 110400 CCA PNSAFG AKZ222-111600- Public Information Statement…CORRECTED National Weather Service Fairbanks AK 800 PM AKDT Sat Aug 10 2019 …Lightning Detected within 300 Miles of North Pole Today… A number of lightning strikes were recorded between 4pm and 6pm today within 300 miles of the North Pole. The... Read More

Fire at a Jim Beam bourbon warehouse in Kentucky

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