True-Color imagery and GOES-R Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) imagery from early on 5 June 2025 (the imagery was captured from the CSPP Geosphere site) from GOES-West, above, and GOES-East, below, shows the a smoke plume emanating from fires in western Canada and spreading over all of southern Canada. The smoke has occasionally... Read More
The slider below compares two different NGFS detections over the Canadian Plains: a VIIRS image (created using data from the direct broadcast antenna at CIMSS) and a GOES-18 image. The NGFS Microphysics looks slightly different between the two because of different view angles and slightly different channel characteristics between the VIIRS... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Visible (0.64 µm) with an overlay of the FDCA Fire Mask derived product (above) showed the large thermal anomaly associated with a wildfire in the Nopiming Provincial Park (located just west of the Manitoba/Ontario border) as it made a rapid northeastward run of ~20 miles on... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) GeoColor RGB images with an overlay of Next Generation Fire System fire detection polygons (above) displayed the thermal anomalies and dense smoke plumes associated with the Camp House Fire (near Brimson) and Jenkins Creek Fire (near Fairbanks) in northeastern Minnesota on 12 May 2025. These 2 wildfires prompted the issuance of a few... Read More
