Pyrocumlonimbus cloud spawned by the Bringham Fire in Arizona
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1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-17 (GOES-West) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images (above) showed the formation of a pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) cloud that was spawned by the Bringham Fire in extreme eastern Arizona during the afternoon hours on 11 June 2020. To be classified as a pyroCb, the deep convective... Read More