10-minute Full Disk scan GOES-18 (GOES-West) “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images and “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images with an overlay of the FDCA Fire Mask derived product (above) showed that a large wildfire north of Fort Nelson (CYYE) in far northeastern British Columbia produced a series of ~3 pyrocumulonimbus... Read More
Interleaved 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector and 5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Upper-level Water Vapor images (above) displayed the SpaceX Starship 9 rocket exhaust plume thermal signature after it was launched from the Starbase facility at Boca Chica Beach, Texas at 2336 UTC on 27 May 2025. Note the change in... Read More
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
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) daytime True Color RGB images created using Geo2Grid (above) showed blowing dust (shades of tan) — lofted by strong southerly thunderstorm outflow winds with gusts as high as 60-70 mph — as it moved northward across northeastern Illinois and northwestern Indiana (and eventually southern Lake Michigan... Read More
