{"id":11216,"date":"2013-06-21T17:58:13","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T23:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=11216"},"modified":"2013-06-21T17:58:29","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T23:58:29","slug":"satellite-imagery-captures-explosion-of-west-fork-complex-fire-papoose-fire-and-thunderstorms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/colorado-weather\/satellite-imagery-captures-explosion-of-west-fork-complex-fire-papoose-fire-and-thunderstorms\/","title":{"rendered":"Satellite imagery captures explosion of West Fork Complex Fire, Papoose Fire and thunderstorms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Satellites provide an amazing eye in the sky for monitoring the weather and climate.\u00a0 Their usefulness today was once again proven as they captures wildfires exploding in Colorado\u2019s southwest and thunderstorms to the northeast.<\/p>\n<p>The satellite imagery animation comes from the NOAA GOES East satellite and was assembled by <a href=\"http:\/\/rammb.cira.colostate.edu\/ramsdis\/online\/index.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado State University RAMSDIS<\/a>.\u00a0 It covers the period from 1:55pm to 4:40pm on Friday, June 21, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The tandem West Form Fire and Papoose Fire in southwestern Colorado are seen sending massive smoke plumes into the sky.\u00a0 Afternoon thunderstorms are exploding in the northeastern corner of the state.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zSEDaAvxk9c\" height=\"435\" width=\"580\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satellites provide an amazing eye in the sky for monitoring the weather and climate.\u00a0 Their usefulness today was once again proven as they captures wildfires exploding in Colorado\u2019s southwest and thunderstorms to the northeast. The satellite imagery animation comes from the NOAA GOES East satellite and was assembled by Colorado State University RAMSDIS.\u00a0 It covers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/colorado-weather\/satellite-imagery-captures-explosion-of-west-fork-complex-fire-papoose-fire-and-thunderstorms\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Satellite imagery captures explosion of West Fork Complex Fire, Papoose Fire and thunderstorms<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[648,244,649,147],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11216"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11218,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11216\/revisions\/11218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}