Wildfires continue to burn across large portions of the Pacific Northwest; you can see our earlier posts about these fires throughout the previous week. Persistent drought across the west has fostered conditions that are ideal for wildfire growth. However, the impact of these fires is being felt much further to the east as... Read More

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) Visible images with an overlay of the Fire Mask derived product (above) showed the rapid growth of the Wrights Springs Fire in southwestern Oregon on 07 August 2026. Tragically, the rapid growth and erratic wildfire behavior resulted in one firefighter fatality.The rapid wildfire growth was also evident in 1-minute GOES-18... Read More

5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Nighttime Microphysics RGB + daytime True Color RGB images from the CSPP GeoSphere site (above) showed the formation of nocturnal river valley fog over parts of the Mississippi River and a few of its tributaries in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois on 03 August 2026. The river valley fog then... Read More

While the Pacific has kept seeing its share of intense tropical systems, the Atlantic has been quieter. This is consistent with what we expect with a strong El Niño, as the global scale impacts from that phenomenon tend to include increased wind shear in the Caribbean and western Atlantic which... Read More