{"id":42176,"date":"2021-08-23T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=42176"},"modified":"2021-08-26T21:09:38","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T21:09:38","slug":"greenwood-fire-in-northeast-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/42176","title":{"rendered":"Greenwood Fire in northeast Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div style=\"width: 651px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/08\/210823_goes16_shortwaveInfrared_winds_Greenwood_Fire_MN_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/08\/G16_SWIR_WINDS_MN_FIRES_23AUG2021_B7_2021235_210117_GOES-16_0001PANEL_FRAME0000073.GIF\" width=\"641\" height=\"481\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m) images, with hourly plots of surface wind barbs (cyan) and wind gusts (in knots, red) [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/08\/210823_goes16_shortwaveInfrared_winds_Greenwood_Fire_MN_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n<p>GOES-16 <em>(GOES-East)<\/em> Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m) images <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed rapid growth of the thermal anomaly &#8212; cluster of hot pixels, red enhancement &#8212; associated with the <a href=\"https:\/\/inciweb.nwcg.gov\/incident\/7805\/\"><strong>Greenwood Fire<\/strong><\/a> in northeast Minnesota on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20210823.html\"><strong>23 August 2021<\/strong><\/a>. With gusty winds in the wake of a <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/08\/210823_surface_analyses_MN_anim.gif\"><strong>frontal passage<\/strong><\/a>, the fire exhibited extreme behavior on this day, growing in size from 8862 acres to 19,493 acres. Vegetation was near a historic level of dryness, due to ongoing <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/08\/210824_mn_drought.png\"><strong>drought conditions<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>GOES-16 True Color RGB images created using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/software\/geo2grid\/\"><strong>Geo2Grid<\/strong><\/a> <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> displayed the dense smoke plume from the Greenwood Fire (as well as other plumes from wildfires farther to the north in Minnesota and Ontario) as they moved eastward.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 652px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/08\/210823_goes16_trueColorRGB_Greenwoood_Fire_MN_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/08\/GOES-16_ABI_RadC_true_color_2021235_220117Z.png\" width=\"642\" height=\"401\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 True Color RGB images [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/08\/210823_goes16_trueColorRGB_Greenwoood_Fire_MN_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOES-16 (GOES-East) Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m) images (above) showed rapid growth of the thermal anomaly &#8212; cluster of hot pixels, red enhancement &#8212; associated with the Greenwood Fire in northeast Minnesota on 23 August 2021. With gusty winds in the wake of a frontal passage, the fire exhibited extreme behavior on this day, growing in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,74,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","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\/42176","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=42176"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42211,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42176\/revisions\/42211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}