1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-17 (GOES-West) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) images (above) showed a smoke plume and pyrocumulus clouds in addition to the thermal anomaly (or “hot spot”) associated with the lightning-initiated North River wildfire burning in the far eastern Seward Peninsula of Alaska on 16 June 2019. It... Read More