{"id":7644,"date":"2011-02-28T23:59:07","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T23:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=7644"},"modified":"2011-03-01T23:09:06","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T23:09:06","slug":"wildfire-forces-closure-of-interstate-95-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/7644","title":{"rendered":"Wildfire forces closure of Interstate 95 in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/02\/110228_g13_vis_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible images (click image to play animation)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/02\/110228_G13_VIS_30.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible images (click image to play animation)\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible images (click image to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>McIDAS images of GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel data <em><strong>(above; click image to play animation)<\/strong><\/em> showed the large smoke plume from a wildfire that forced the closure of Interstate 95 in eastern Florida on <a title=\"28 February 2011 daily weater map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20110228.html\"><strong>28 February 2011<\/strong><\/a>. A MODIS <a title=\"MODIS true color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) image\" href=\"http:\/\/rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov\/faq\/#faq04\"><strong>true color<\/strong><\/a> Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) image from the <a title=\"SSEC MODIS Today site\" href=\"http:\/\/ge.ssec.wisc.edu\/modis-today\/index.php?satellite=a1&amp;product=true_color&amp;date=2011_02_28_059&amp;overlay_sector=false&amp;overlay_state=true&amp;overlay_coastline=true\"><strong>SSEC MODIS Today<\/strong><\/a> site<em><strong> (below; viewed using Google Earth)<\/strong><\/em> offered a closer view of the growing smoke plume at 19:14 UTC. The fire burned several structures and forced evacuations of parts of Scottsmoor, Florida.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/02\/110228_modis_truecolor_fl_google.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"MODIS true color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) image (viewed using Google Earth)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/02\/110228_modis_truecolor_fl_google.jpg\" alt=\"MODIS true color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) image (viewed using Google Earth)\" width=\"480\" height=\"414\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MODIS true color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) image (viewed using Google Earth)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A sequence of AWIPS images of 1-km resolution POES AVHRR and MODIS 3.7 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR data <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> revealed the very large &#8220;hot spot&#8221; <em>(black to red to yellow pixels)<\/em> associated with the wildfire as it jumped eastward across Interstate 95 after about 23:00 UTC <em>(4 pm local time)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/02\/110228-0301_avhrr_modis_swir_fl_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"POES AVHRR 3.7 \u00c2\u00b5m and MODIS 3.7 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR images\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/02\/110228-0301_avhrr_modis_swir_fl_anim.gif\" alt=\"POES AVHRR 3.7 \u00c2\u00b5m and MODIS 3.7 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR images\" width=\"480\" height=\"459\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">POES AVHRR 3.7 \u00c2\u00b5m and MODIS 3.7 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR images<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; McIDAS images of GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed the large smoke plume from a wildfire that forced the closure of Interstate 95 in eastern Florida on 28 February 2011. A MODIS true color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) image from the SSEC MODIS Today site (below; viewed using Google [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22,6,11,32,12,26,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-quality","category-avhrr","category-fire-detection","category-goes-13","category-google-earth","category-modis","category-poes","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7644","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=7644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7645,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7644\/revisions\/7645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}