Numerous wildfires burning in southwestern Canada (primarily British Columbia: NOAA HMS fire/smoke product) produced large amounts of smoke, which was subsequently transported eastward across southern Canada and then southward across the Midwestern US during the 09 August – 11 August 2018 period. GOES-16 (GOES-East) Natural Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images from the AOS site (above) showed this... Read More
* GOES-17 images shown here are preliminary and non-operational *GOES-15 (GOES-West), GOES-14, GOES-17 and GOES-16 (GOES-East) Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) images (above) showed the thermal anomaly or “hot spot” (black to yellow to red pixels) associated with the Holy Fire that was burning in southern California on 09 August 2018. This comparison... Read More
GOES-17 Imagery in this post is preliminary and non-operational.GOES-16, operational as GOES-East at 75.2º W Longitude, and GOES-17, in a check-out mode at 89.5º W Longitude, viewed convection in and around Houston TX (apparent in the clear skies at the start of the animation) on 8 August 2018 (Click here... Read More
* GOES-17 images shown here are preliminary and non-operational *“Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images from GOES-17 and GOES-16 (above) showed the circulation and convective banding associated with Subtropical Storm Debby in the Atlantic Ocean on 07 August 2018.Deep-layer wind shear analysis from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site (below) indicated that Debby was in an environment... Read More
