10-minute Full Disk sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) Fire Temperature RGB, “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm), Cloud Top Height and Cloud Top Temperature (above) showed the formation of a pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) cloud produced by a wildfire southeast of Edson, Alberta (station identifier CYET) on 04 May 2023. Cloud-top 10.3 µm infrared brightness temperatures were as cold as -61ºC, while the multispectral... Read More

A long-wave diffluent trough centered over California and Nevada was helping to force benign convection along the Laramie Mountains, which run roughly from Laramie to Casper, Wyoming. The ProbSevere LightningCast model, which uses AI and GOES-R data to predict the probability of lightning in the next hour, was able to highlight... Read More