Pyrocumulonimbus cloud in Canada’s Northwest Territories
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GOES-18 images in this blog post are preliminary and non-operational GOES-18 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images (above) showed the formation of a small pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) cloud — generated by a wildfire that was burning near the northwest coast of Great... Read More