A large (208,000 acre) wildfire continued to burn near Derby Mountain in southwestern Montana on 12 September. A QuickTime animation of the 3.9 micrometer shortwave IR imagery from GOES-11, GOES-12, and GOES-13 (above) shows the “hot spots” associated with this fire — on the... Read More
Cold air was streaming southwestward across Lake Superior, behind a strong Canadian cold front (temperatures the following morning dropped to 19 F at Embarrass MN and 28 F at Hayward WI). On the MODIS true color image (below, left), the appearance of the cloud bands that formed over the lake closely... Read More
No shortage of satellite meteorology topics today over the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes regions! A look at the GOES-12 visible channel animation (below, left) reveals the following features: (1) fingers of morning fog in the river valleys of southwestern Wisconsin, (2) areas of smoke... Read More
Wildfire activity persisted across parts of the Northwest US today, with GOES-11 Wildfire ABBA indicating a number of active fires in WA, ID, and MT (below, left). The smoke from these fires became rather thick from eastern Washington to western Montana, as seen by the widespread... Read More
