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<\/a>GOES-14 Visible (0.63 \u00b5m) images, with hourly surface weather symbols plotted in yellow [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>GOES-14 remained in SRSO-R<\/strong><\/a> mode on 17 August 2016<\/strong><\/a>, providing imagery at 1-minute intervals over the western US. Some interesting phenomena observed included the evolution of coastal fog\/stratus in areas such as Vancouver Island and Washington\/Oregon (above; <\/strong>also available as a large 134 Mbyte animated GIF<\/a>)<\/strong><\/em> and also the Bay Area of California (below; <\/strong>also available as a large 202 Mbyte animated GIF<\/a>)<\/strong><\/em>. In the example above, note the diurnal ebb and flow of fog\/stratus as it first moved westward out of, and then eastward back into the Strait of Juan de Fuca.; in the example below, it is interesting to note that as the majority of the coastal fog\/stratus dissipated as morning heating\/mixing progressed, but a narrow finger of fog\/stratus remained in the Golden Gate and protruded into San Francisco Bay.<\/p>\n GOES-14 Visible (0.63 \u00b5m) images, with hourly plots of surface reports in yellow [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>In Southern California, one of the larger wildfires burning at the time was the Blue Cut Fire<\/strong><\/a> northeast of Los Angeles. During the early morning hours, GOES-14 Visible (0.63 \u00b5m) and Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m) images (below; <\/strong>also available as a large 70 Mbyte animated GIF<\/a>)<\/strong><\/em> revealed the long and narrow smoke plume streaming northeastward; a marked increase in wildfire hot spots (red pixels in the 3.9 \u00b5m imagery) was seen after about 17 UTC (10am local time).<\/p>\n GOES-14 0.63 \u00b5m Visible (left) and 3.9 \u00b5m Shortwave Infrared (right) images, with hourly plots of surface reports in cyan\/yellow [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>A closer view of GOES-14 Visible (0.63 \u00b5m) images (below; <\/strong>also available as a large 127 Mbyte animated GIF<\/a>)<\/strong><\/em> after 18 UTC (11am local time) showed a more well-defined smoke plume re-develop as the wildfire continued to burn with very little perimeter containment. The smoke plume drifted over Victorville, California (KVCV), where the surface visibility briefly dropped to 7 miles at 22 UTC (surface observation plot<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n![\"GOES-14](\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/08\/960x1280_GOES14_B1_GOES14_VIS_SFO_17AUG2016_2016230_160400_0001PANEL.GIF\")
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<\/a>![animated GIF<\/a>)<\/strong><\/em> after 18 UTC (11am local time) showed a more well-defined smoke plume re-develop as the wildfire continued to burn with very little perimeter containment. The smoke plume drifted over Victorville, California (KVCV), where the surface visibility briefly dropped to 7 miles at 22 UTC (](\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/08\/160817_goes14_visible_Blue_Cut_Fire_CA_anim.gif\"){kind=link}