{"id":40523,"date":"2021-04-02T23:15:43","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T23:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=40523"},"modified":"2021-04-08T00:26:14","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T00:26:14","slug":"auto-recycling-center-fire-in-la-crosse-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/40523","title":{"rendered":"Metal recycling center fire in La Crosse, Wisconsin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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GOES-16 Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n

GOES-16 (GOES-East)<\/em> Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m) images (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed the thermal anomaly (cluster of darker red pixels)<\/em> associated with a fire at a metal recycling plant in La Crosse, Wisconsin — located at the center of the images — on 02 April 2021<\/strong><\/a>. According to media reports<\/strong><\/a>, over 100 vehicles were burning at the facility. Farther to the south, a few thermal signatures of prescribed burns were seen in northeastern Iowa.<\/p>\n

A brief smoke plume was produced by the recycling center fire, as shown in GOES-16 True Color RGB images (below)<\/strong><\/em>,<\/em> which drifted north-northeastward. Smoke plumes from the prescribed burns were also evident.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-16<\/a>

GOES-16 True Color RGB images [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>A time series plot of surface weather conditions at La Crosse Regional Airport (below)<\/strong> <\/em>showed the strong southerly winds gusting to 27 knots around the time of the fire, which transported the smoke plumes northward.<\/p>\n

\"Time<\/a>

Time series plot of surface weather conditions at La Crosse Regional Airport [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  GOES-16 (GOES-East) Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m) images (above) showed the thermal anomaly (cluster of darker red pixels) associated with a fire at a metal recycling plant in La Crosse, Wisconsin — located at the center of the images — on 02 April 2021. According to media reports, over 100 vehicles were burning at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":40528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,74,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fire-detection","category-goes-16","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40523","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=40523"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40529,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40523\/revisions\/40529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}