Two large fires burning in southern Colorado began to produce pyrocumulonimbus clouds and very large smoke plumes, as seen on GOES-13 0.63 µm visible channel (top panels) and 3.9 µm shortwave IR images (bottom panels) on 19 June (above; click image to play animation) and on 20 June 2012 (below; click image to play animation). […]
As mentioned on the CIMSS Satellite Blog, record heat in Alaska led to an increase in wildfire activity in Alaska — and GOES-15 (GOES-West) 0.63 µm visible channel images (above; click image to play animation) showed the development of pyrocumulonimbus clouds associated with large fires burning in southwestern Alaska (to the northeast and northwest of […]
The Silver Fire continued to burn in southwestern New Mexico on 13 June 2013. GOES-13 0.63 µm visible channel images (above; click image to play animation) showed the development of a well-defined pyrocumulonimbus cloud, which then began to merge with orographic cumulonimbus clouds which were building to the west of the fire. An overpass of […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Thompson Ridge Fire (InciWeb) began burning on 31 May 2013 in northern New Mexico, just west of Los Alamos (station identifier KLAM). Five days later on 04 June, GOES-15 (GOES-West) and GOES-14 (GOES-East) 0.63 µm visible channel images (above; click image to play animation) showed the development of pyrocumulus near the source of the […]
