Given all the smoke over United States, one might ask: “Just how much acreage has burned over Canada?” NOAA-21 VIIRS False-color imagery from 28 June, toggled above with True-color imagery, reveal very large burn scars over Quebec to the east of James Bay. In the False-color imagery, the burnscars have a... Read More

GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) + Fire Power (a component of the GOES Fire Detection and Characterization Algorithm FDCA), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm), Day Land Cloud Fire RGB and Fire Temperature RGB images (above) showed thermal signatures and pyrocumulus pulses associated with the Pulp Road Fire in far southeastern North Carolina on 16 June 2023. Beginning at 1646... Read More

Cyclone Biparjoy in the Arabian Sea began a period of rapid intensification late in the day on 09 June 2023, reaching Category 3 intensity by 12 UTC on 10 June (SATCON) — EUMETSAT Meteosat-9 Visible (0.64 µm) and Infrared Window (10.8 µm) images (above) showed Biparjoy during the 0100-1330 UTC... Read More

GOES-18 (GOES-West) SO2 RGB, Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) and Fire Power derived product images (above) showed the SO2 plume and thermal signature of an eruption of Kilauea that began at 4:44 AM HST or 1444 UTC on 07 June 2023. As of 1451 UTC (only 7 minutes after the onset of the... Read More