{"id":38252,"date":"2020-09-07T23:59:01","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T23:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=38252"},"modified":"2020-09-12T22:30:29","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T22:30:29","slug":"fast-moving-wildfires-in-washington-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/38252","title":{"rendered":"Fast-moving wildfires in Washington State"},"content":{"rendered":"

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GOES-17 \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m, top left),<\/em> Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m, top right),<\/em> Fire Temperature RGB + GLM Flash Extent Density (bottom left)<\/em> and \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m, bottom right)<\/em> [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>1-minute\u00a0Mesoscale Domain Sector<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0GOES-17\u00a0(GOES-West)\u00a0<\/em>\u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>),\u00a0Fire Temperature<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Red-Green-Blue (RGB) +\u00a0GLM<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Flash Extent Density<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(FED) and \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images\u00a0(above)\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>showed the smoke plume and thermal signature of the Pearl Hill Fire<\/strong><\/a> — which made a rapid ~50-mile run south-southwestward across northern Washington State on 07 September 2020<\/strong><\/a>. During this time, northwesterly winds gusted to 40 knots (46 mph) at Omak (KOMK) near the source of the fire. Downwind of the fire, smoke reduced the visibility to 1.5 miles at times in Wenatchee (KEAT).<\/p>\n

Later in the day, smaller fires which started burning farther to the east exhibited similar (albeit much shorter-distance) southwestward runs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1-minute\u00a0Mesoscale Domain Sector\u00a0GOES-17\u00a0(GOES-West)\u00a0\u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m),\u00a0Fire Temperature\u00a0Red-Green-Blue (RGB) +\u00a0GLM\u00a0Flash Extent Density\u00a0(FED) and \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m) images\u00a0(above)\u00a0showed the smoke plume and thermal signature of the Pearl Hill Fire — which made a rapid ~50-mile run south-southwestward across northern Washington State on 07 September 2020. During this time, northwesterly winds gusted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-quality","category-fire-detection","category-goes-17"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38252"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38260,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38252\/revisions\/38260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}