Smoke from fires (unless it is extraordinarily thick) is very challenging to detect at night in infrared imagery. When there is sufficent lunar illumination, however, as occurred on 29 July 2021 over Canada (the image above shows northwestern Ontario and southern Manitoba — Lakes Winnepeg, Winnepegosis and Manitoba are apparent,... Read More

Severe thunderstorms developed (in a moderate risk region from the Storm Prediction Center; here are the Storm Reports) over northern Wisconsin late in the day on 28 July 2021 and moved to the southeast (here is an mp4 animation of GOES-16 imagery courtesy of Tim Schmit, NOAA). The Day Night Band imagery, above, from... Read More