Wildfires in Quebec (which eventually produced pyrocumulonimbus clouds)
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GOES-16 (GOES-East) Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) images (above) showed the diurnal variability of thermal anomalies (hot pixels) associated with a cluster of wildfires in southern Quebec during the 02 June – 04 June 2023 period. On the first of these 3 days, several of the wind-driven fires exhibited 3.9 µm brightness temperatures of 137.71ºC... Read More