Weather satellite

For some severe weather is all about thunderstorms, Winter storms or hurricanes but to Kate Forrest, severe is defined by fire weather.

Once my team and I find a spot, we level the truck and power up the radar. To better understand this, using the same tools to track/study supercell thunderstorms and severe weather is now being applied to wildfires. Everyone I’ve met and worked with shows immense love and dedication to their work and are always willing to share advice.” We spend a lot of time driving around and looking on google maps to find the best sampling location that has line of site and is within 10 km of the fire. Updraft speeds nearly 67 miles per hour and the team has used aircraft lidar to see updraft speeds even faster than that in larger wildfire column plume fires across the Western U.S. More often than not, it arguably has become the most common type of severe weather in California as drier conditions continue around the state due to prolonged drought conditions.