According to the Canadian Wildland Fire Information System on 07 June a fire called 15BN-BRADY started. By 24 June it was reported that a pyroCb was produced from this fire around 23:00 UTC in Saskatchewan (56.8 N 109.3 W). By 25 June the fire has grown to 7,115 hectares. GOES-15 detected the smoke plume and pyroCb […]
On 23 June around 22:45 UTC a fire started in British Columbia near 58.8 N 133.2 W. This fire produced a pyroCb around 00:00 UTC on 24 June 2015. GOES-15 detected the smoke plume and pyroCb cloud, as well as the fire hot spot. Starting at 22:00 UTC on 23 June, the animation below shows visible (.63 […]
On 11 June 2015 there was pyroCb in Western Alberta (53.6 N 119.4 W) from a fire that started on 08 June. The start date of the fire was found from using the Canadian Wildland Fire Information System (link provided by Rene). The first image below shows active fires on 07 June. Notice that the […]
There have been a lot of fires within the past month in western and northwestern Canada. These fires have produced some pyroCbs that have been documented in this blog, but also these fires produce a lot of smoke. This smoke has been moving into the upper Midwest down to the East Coast from a northwest […]
A fire in northern Alberta (58.6W 113.4N) on 5 June 2015 produced two pyroCbs. This is a fire is the same that was investigated for possibly producing pyroCbs on 3 June 2015. However, on the 3 June fire there ended up not being any pyroCbs. The first pyroCb started around 23:00 UTC on 5 June, […]
A fire in Northern Alberta (58 N, 113 W) began showing signs of becoming a PyroCb late in the date on 3 June 2015 into the morning of 4 June. This fire is among the 39 wildfire currently burning in the region, spurring a providence wide fire ban. GOES 15 detected this occurrence at visible […]
