Even though this year’s fire season for a time lacked the larger events of recent years, things quickly escalated when the Mosquito Fire grew rapidly in hot, windy and unstable atmospheric conditions.
To better understand this, using the same tools to track/study supercell thunderstorms and severe weather is now being applied to wildfires. One of the most critical tools the team is their mobile radar truck, which works in many ways similar to NBC Bay Area’s StormRanger with a high resolution, rapid scan ability to better understand what is happening behind all the smoke and flames.
“Deploying SJSU’s mobile weather radar to a fire is as exciting as it is exhausting. 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. Once my team and I find a spot, we level the truck and power up the radar. It’s then my job to point the radar in the direction of the plume and start collecting data.
The radar results can be stunning as seen here in imagery showing the towering column plume displaying strong winds vertically while casting large embers and large ash and other wildfire lofted materials aloft.SJSU Ka-Band Radar: 41,000 ft plume top with ice/hydrometeors. When not deployed on wildfires, Forrest said that she has enjoyed her other Summer line of work, which has been as weather intern for the NBC Bay Area weather team.
"Working at NBC Bay Area has shown me completely different yet exciting side of meteorology, Forrest said."As someone who’s primarily been on the research side, it’s eye opening to see day-to-day operations in a broadcast studio while learning science communication from some of the best producers, broadcast meteorologists, and journalists in the business. Everyone I’ve met and worked with shows immense love and dedication to their work and are always willing to share advice.
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