File:Raging Wildfires Spark Lightning Over British Columbia (NESDIS 2021-07-13 wildfire-smoke).png

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The North American summer wildfire season has been exploding across the West, intensified by numerous heat waves and widespread drought conditions.

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English: The North American summer wildfire season has been exploding across the West, intensified by numerous heat waves and widespread drought conditions. On July 1, the GOES West satellite viewed GeoColor and Fire Temperature imagery of British Columbia, Canada, with an added overlay to show the lightning that was produced by the fires’ pyrocumulonimbus clouds, or fire-derived clouds that are created by convection and rising heat. They also have a prominent above anvil cirrus plume, a standout feature that is partially obscured by the Geostationary Lightning Mapper overlay. The satellite’s GLM, additionally, captured the lightning’s activity as it occurred in this sped-up imagery of the event. According to the British Columbia Wildfire Service’s dashboard, about 70% of the fires from July 1 were caused by lightning strikes, with the rest a likely combination of human or unknown origin.
Date 13 July 2021 (upload date)
Source Raging Wildfires Spark Lightning Over British Columbia
Author NOAA
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