On August 11, 2014 a fire in northern California produced a pyroCb detected by GOES-15 0.63 µm visible channel and 3.9 µm shortwave IR channel images (above; click image to play animation) around 21:15 UTC located near 41º North and 123º West rapidly drifting northwest in the direction as the surrounding convection. On the shortwave IR images (right panel), the red […]
On August 5, 2014 one of the fires surrounding the Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories, Canada produced a pyroCb detected by GOES-15 0.63 µm visible channel and 3.9 µm shortwave IR channel images (above; click image to play animation) around 20:00 UTC located near 60.5º North and 115º West, then rapidly drifting west as it develops. At that […]
On July 30, 2014, a lightning strike started the Oregon Gulch Fire, part of the Beaver Complex of fires, becoming an extremely active fire due to the very dry conditions in this part of the country. As these fires grew, another thunderstorm system passed through northern California on August 1, 2014 with over 1,000 lightning […]
On 15 September 2013, a Pyrocumulonimbus (PyroCb) was detected by GOES-15 imagery in British Columbia, Canada in the center of the province. The animation above is imagery from GOES-15 (click animation to play); the panel on the left is the visible bandwidth and the panel of the right is shortwave infrared bandwidth highlighting the fire hot-spots […]
On 8 July 2013, a Pyrocumulonimbus (PyroCb) was detected by GOES-15 imagery in the Northwest Territory of Canada, just east of the Yukon Territory border and north of the British Columbia border. The above two images at 22:30 UTC show the PyroCb anvil in the visible wavelength, hot fire pixels in the Shortwave IR wavelength, and […]
