GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (above) showed the formation of a small pyroCumulonimbus (pyroCb) cloud spawned by the 416 Fire in southwestern Colorado on 09 June 2018. A Mesoscale Domain Sector was positioned over the region, providing images at 1-minute intervals.On Shortwave Infrared imagery,... Read More
Tropical Storm Aletta was upgraded to Hurricane Aletta at 21 UTC on 07 June 2018. As was the case on 06 June, a GOES-16 Mesoscale Domain Sector centered over the tropical cyclone provided 1-minute data — and an eye eventually became apparent on “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) imagery... Read More
An explosion and fire occurred along a TransCanada natural gas pipeline in the remote Nixon Ridge area of Marshall County, West Virginia on 07 June 2018. A thermal signature of the fire was seen in GOES-16 (GOES-East) Near-Infrared Snow/Ice (1.61 µm), Near-Infrared Cloud Particle Size (2.24 µm) and Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) images... Read More
The Kilauea volcano on the Big Island of Hawai’i continued to be active into early June 2018 — and GOES-15 (GOES-West) Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) imagery (above) showed the thermal anomaly or “hot spot” (black to yellow to red enhancement) associated with lava flows from active fissures in the East... Read More
