Category Archives: Canada

PyroCb in Yukon

On 23 June 2017 a pyroCb formed in Yukon. GOES-15 detected the smoke plumes and pyroCb cloud, as well as the fires hot spot. The pyroCb cloud (~66º N, 137.5ºW) formed around 1:00 UTC . Starting at 0:00 UTC on 23 June, the animation below shows GOES-15 0.63 µm visible (left) and 3.9 µm shortwave IR (right) […]

PyroCb in Yukon

On 19 June 2017 a pyroCb formed in Yukon. GOES-15 detected the smoke plumes and pyroCb cloud, as well as the fires hot spot. The pyroCb cloud (~66º N, 137ºW) formed around 23:30 UTC . Starting at 22:00 UTC on 19 June, the animation below shows GOES-15 0.63 µm visible (left) and 3.9 µm shortwave IR (right) […]

PyroCb in Northwest Territories

On 29 June one pyroCb formed in the Northwest Territories. GOES-15 detected the smoke plume and pyroCb cloud, as well as the fire hot spot. The pyroCb (63.9 N 123.9W) occurred at  22:11 UTC . Starting at 21:00 UTC on 21 June, the animation below shows visible (.63 μm) on the left and shortwave IR (3.9 […]

PyroCu in Northwest Territories

On 21 June one pyroCu formed in the Northwest Territories. GOES-15 detected the smoke plume and pyroCu cloud, as well as the fire hot spot. The pyroCu (64 N 124 W) occurred at around 4:30 UTC. Starting at 4:00 UTC on 21 June, the animation below shortwave IR (3.9 μm, click image to play animation), […]

Canadian Fires Producing Smoke that Traveled to Europe

Starting on 03 May there have been multiple pyroCb events in Alberta, Canada near Fort McMurray. The documentation of these events with accompanying images can be found at: http://pyrocb.ssec.wisc.edu/archives/1572. These fires continued to produce pyroCbs with the last pyroCb detected on 17 May. Since this is such a long period of time for pyroCbs to […]

PyroCb in British Columbia

On 16  May a pyroCb formed in British Columbia (~56 N, ~122W). GOES-15 detected the smoke plume and pyroCb cloud, as well as the fire hot spot. Starting at 22:00 UTC on 16 May, the animation below shows visible (.63 μm) on the right and shortwave IR (3.9 μm) on the left (click image to play […]