5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) GeoColor RGB images with an overlay of Next Generation Fire System (NGFS) Fire Detection polygons (above) showed the dense smoke plumes and thermal signatures associated with the ongoing Nopiming Provincial Park wildfire on 22 May 2025 (this wildfire exhibited extreme behavior and also produced numerous pyrocumulonimbus clouds on 13 May).GOES-19 Visible... Read More

Tens of thousands of baseball fans took to Chicago’s North Side on the evening of 14 May 2025 to watch a Major League Baseball game between the Miami Marlins and the Chicago Cubs. Fans of the Cubs might not remember much about the game itself (the Marlins won 3–1 with... 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

5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) and Fire Mask derived product images (above) displayed a pronounced thermal signature associated with Episode 20 of the ongoing eruption in the Halema’uma’u crater (located within the Kilauea summit caldera) on the Big Island of Hawai’i, which began around 0328 UTC... Read More