On August 11, 2014 a fire in northern California produced a pyroCb detected by GOES-15 0.63 µm visible channel and 3.9 µm shortwave IR channel images (above; click image to play animation) around 21:15 UTC located near 41º North and 123º West rapidly drifting northwest in the direction as the surrounding convection. On the shortwave IR images (right panel), the red […]
The South Fork fire complex had been burning since being started by lightning on 31 July 2014 (InciWeb), and a pyroCb was seen to develop late in the day on 09 August 2014. A 4-panel comparison of GOES-15 (GOES-West) and GOES-13 (GOES-East) 0.63 µm visible channel and 3.9 µm shortwave IR channel images (above; click […]
On August 5, 2014 one of the fires surrounding the Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories, Canada produced a pyroCb detected by GOES-15 0.63 µm visible channel and 3.9 µm shortwave IR channel images (above; click image to play animation) around 20:00 UTC located near 60.5º North and 115º West, then rapidly drifting west as it develops. At that […]
On July 30, 2014, a lightning strike started the Oregon Gulch Fire, part of the Beaver Complex of fires, becoming an extremely active fire due to the very dry conditions in this part of the country. As these fires grew, another thunderstorm system passed through northern California on August 1, 2014 with over 1,000 lightning […]
On August 2nd, 2014 a pyroCb was detected in British Columbia by GOES-15 0.63 µm visible channel and 3.9 µm shortwave IR channel images (above). The pyroCb occurred around 02:45 UTC, located near 53º North and 125º West. The shortwave IR images (right panel) shows several hot spots (black to red pixels), but only the southern most hot spot […]
