Daily Archives: June 11, 2013

Jaroso Fire in northeastern New Mexico

The Jaroso Fire in northeastern New Mexico produced a very large Pyrocumulonimbus cloud on 11 June 2013. GOES-15 0.63 µm visible channel images (above; click image to play animation; also available as a QuickTime movie) show the development of the well-defined pyroCb cloud, which then proceeded to drift rapidly eastward. There were several other fires […]