1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Visible images (with/without an overlay of the FDCA Fire Mask derived product) and Shortwave Infrared images (above) showed the thermal anomaly associated with a fast-moving grass fire (the Sharpe Fire) that moved northeastward across the Oklahoma border into Baca County in far southeastern Colorado on 17 May 2026 —... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Visible images (with/without an overlay of the FDCA Fire Mask derived product), Shortwave Infrared images and Infrared Window images (above) showed the thermal anomalies associated with several grass fires south and southwest of Dodge City (KDDC) in southwestern Kansas — and two of these grass fires... Read More
On the afternoon of 14 May 2026, a strong midlatitude cyclone centered over the prairie provinces of Canada forced very strong winds in the Northern Great Plains of the continental United States. This in turn lofted an extreme amount of dust into the lower atmosphere, lowering visibilities to less than... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Visible images (with an overlay of the FDCA Fire Mask derived product), Shortwave Infrared images and Infrared Window images (above) showed the thermal anomaly associated with a wildfire in the far western Oklahoma Panhandle that produced a small pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) cloud shortly before sunset on 14 May 2026.... Read More
