A prescribed burn in far western Arizona’s Havasu National Wildlife Refuge became uncontrolled as northerly winds unexpectedly increased (gusting to 36 mph at RAWS site QHAA3 just north of the fire, and gusting to 28 mph at Needles Airport just west of the fire around 2300 UTC) — and grew to become the Havasu Fire... Read More
5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) GeoColor RGB images with an overlay of Next Generation Fire System (NGFS) Fire Detection polygons (above) displayed numerous thermal signatures and smoke plumes associated with prescribed burns near the Gulf Coast of Texas and Louisiana on 15 January 2026.Two of the hottest-burning fires occurred near the coast in far southwest... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Water Vapor images (above) displayed an intermittent signature of subsidence-induced warming/drying (brighter shades of yellow to orange) that led to the development of strong downslope winds in the Front Range of Colorado on 17 December 2025. Several sites recorded peak wind gusts in excess of 100 mph.A toggle... Read More
5-minute PACUS Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) Shortwave Infrared images (above) displayed the pronounced thermal signature associated with an eruption of Kilauea on the Big Island of Hawai`i on 06 December 2025. According to the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, this Episode 38 of the ongoing Halema`uma`u eruption (Episode 1 started on 23 December 2024) began at 1845 UTC... Read More
