The Silver Fire continued to burn on June 27, 2013 in Southwestern New Mexico.  GOES-13  0.63 micrometer visible imagery (above, left panel; click image to play) show a smoke plume erupting from the desert during the late morning and early afternoon hours of the 27th.  After the smoke plume is evident, a large pyrocumulonimbus forms […]

The West Fork Fire continued to burn on June 26, 2013 in South Central Colorado.  This fire had its origins three weeks earlier on June 5, 2013.  GOES-13  0.63 micrometer visible imagery (above, left panel; click image to play) show a smoke plume erupting from the mountain fire during the early afternoon hours of the […]

The Silver Fire continued to burn on June 12, 2013 in Southwestern New Mexico.  GOES-13  0.63 micrometer visible imagery (above, left panel; click image to play) showed an easily visible plume of smoke and pyrocumulonimbus cloud forming during the afternoon hours of the 12th.  Also, GOES-13 3.9 micrometer shortwave IR imagery (above, right panel; click image […]