GOES-18 (GOES-West) Day Land Cloud Fire RGB, Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm), “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images along with the Fire Power derived product (a component of the GOES Fire Detection and Characterization Algorithm FDCA) (above) showed a wildfire southeast of Dease Lake (CWDL) in northern British Columbia that produced a pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) cloud late in the day... Read More

Given all the smoke over United States, one might ask: “Just how much acreage has burned over Canada?” NOAA-21 VIIRS False-color imagery from 28 June, toggled above with True-color imagery, reveal very large burn scars over Quebec to the east of James Bay. In the False-color imagery, the burnscars have a... Read More