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<\/a>5-minute GOES-16 True Color RGB images [click to play animated GIF | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>5-minute CONUS sector GOES-16 (GOES-East)<\/em> True Color RGB images from the CSPP GeoSphere<\/strong><\/a> site (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed the northward transport of smoke from the 35,000-acre Great Lake Fire in eastern North Carolina on 21 April 2023<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n In a closer view using 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector<\/strong><\/a> GOES-16 True Color RGB images (below),<\/strong><\/em> intermittent brighter white pyrocumulus clouds were seen in the immediate vicinity of the fire source.<\/p>\n 1-minute GOES-16 True Color RGB images [click to play animated GIF | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>1-minute GOES-16 Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) and Day Land Cloud Fire RGB<\/strong><\/a> images along with the Fire Power and Fire Temperature derived products (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed thermal signatures of the fire (the Fire Power and Fire Temperature products are components of the Fire Detection and Characterization Algorithm<\/strong><\/a>). 3.9 \u00b5m infrared brightness temperatures occasionally reached 137.71\u00baC (the saturation temperature of GOES-16 ABI<\/strong><\/a> Band 7 detectors), as early as 1524 UTC and as late as 2143 UTC.<\/p>\n<\/a>