{"id":40918,"date":"2021-05-18T23:59:11","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T23:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=40918"},"modified":"2021-05-21T14:48:57","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T14:48:57","slug":"wildfires-in-southern-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/40918","title":{"rendered":"Wildfires in southern Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GOES-16<\/a>

GOES-16 True Color RGB images [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>GOES-16 (GOES-East)<\/em> True Color RGB images created using Geo2Grid<\/strong><\/a> (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed the growth of numerous large smoke plumes created by wildfires across parts of Manitoba and Ontario on 18 May 2021<\/strong><\/a>. A “pyrocumulus jump” was seen in Manitoba (just south of Lake Winnipeg) just after 00 UTC.<\/p>\n

Early in the day, a significant amount of ice coverage was apparent in the northern portion of Lake Winnipeg (before becoming obscured by dense smoke plumes). In addition, a line of thunderstorms developed across Saskatchewan and Montana ahead of an approaching cold front.<\/p>\n

===== 19 May Update =====<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Suomi<\/a>

Suomi NPP VIIRS Shortwave Infrared (3.74 \u00b5m)<\/em>\u00a0and Day\/Night Band (0.7 \u00b5m)<\/em>\u00a0images [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>In a toggle between Suomi NPP VIIRS Shortwave Infrared and Day\/Night Band images at 0811 UTC or 3:11 AM CDT on 19 May (above)<\/strong>,<\/em> the thermal signature of the large fire between Lake Manitoba and Lake Winnipeg was obscured by a narrow patch of cloudiness, but the bright signature of active fires still burning along the periphery of the original wildfire burn area was apparent in the Day\/Night Band image.<\/p>\n

The GOES-16 Aerosol Optical Depth product (below)<\/strong> <\/em>highlighted a plume of smoke aloft — originating from the Manitoba\/Ontario fires — moving southward across Quebec, Canada and the Northeast US during the subsequent daytime hours. AOD values were as high as 1.0 within the plume.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-16<\/a>

GOES-16 Aerosol Optical Depth product [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GOES-16 (GOES-East) True Color RGB images created using Geo2Grid (above) showed the growth of numerous large smoke plumes created by wildfires across parts of Manitoba and Ontario on 18 May 2021. A “pyrocumulus jump” was seen in Manitoba (just south of Lake Winnipeg) just after 00 UTC. Early in the day, a significant amount of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":40920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,74,45,49,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fire-detection","category-goes-16","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40918","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=40918"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40925,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40918\/revisions\/40925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}