{"id":2234,"date":"2018-06-04T11:36:27","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T18:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rammb.cira.colostate.edu\/training\/visit\/blog\/?p=2234"},"modified":"2026-03-06T09:06:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T16:06:27","slug":"volcan-de-fuego-guatemala-erupts-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/2018\/06\/04\/volcan-de-fuego-guatemala-erupts-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Volcan de Fuego, Guatemala erupts again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Volc%C3%A1n+de+Fuego\/@14.4673803,-90.9011751,8.54z\/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x858917891266c2c3:0x361e7cff7a340f60!8m2!3d14.4746899!4d-90.8806346\">Volcan de Fuego<\/a> erupted again in southern Guatemala. The pyroclastic flow of Fuego surprised many, and as of this morning 4 June 2018, at least 25 people have died, while many others are injured. Locals near Fuego, are in the process of being evacuated from the area.<\/p>\n<p>Fuego erupted around 18 UTC, 3 June 2018, ejecting hot gas, smoke and ash in the atmosphere, where geostationary and polar-orbiting satellites observed the phenomena. Below is a video of the volcanic eruption, utilizing the CIRA-GeoColor satellite imagery from <a href=\"http:\/\/rammb-slider.cira.colostate.edu\/?sat=goes-16&amp;sec=full_disk&amp;x=10848&amp;y=10848&amp;z=0&amp;im=12&amp;ts=1&amp;st=0&amp;et=0&amp;speed=130&amp;motion=loop&amp;map=1&amp;lat=0&amp;p%5B0%5D=16&amp;opacity%5B0%5D=1&amp;hidden%5B0%5D=0&amp;pause=0&amp;slider=-1&amp;hide_controls=0&amp;mouse_draw=0&amp;s=rammb-slider\">RAMMB-SLIDER<\/a>, between 18-21 UTC, June 3 2018. Notice the rapid volcanic plume (brownish cloud) that develops and is advected eastward, within the time-frame.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1676px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-2234-1\" width=\"1676\" height=\"944\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/06\/fuegodevolcan_v2.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/06\/fuegodevolcan_v2.mp4\">https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/06\/fuegodevolcan_v2.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>The Suomi-National Polar-orbiting Partnership (SNPP) satellite also observed the volcanic plume. The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) True Color and Imagery Band 5 (11.45um, brightness temperature) both show static images of the events at ~19 UTC, 3 June 2018.\u00a0 Static images are taken approximately 1-hour after the volcanic eruption started. Both images are courtesy of the <a href=\"https:\/\/worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov\/\">NASA Worldview<\/a> data archive website.<\/p>\n<p><strong>VIIRS True Color Imagery<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2237\" style=\"font-size: 12px\" src=\"http:\/\/rammb.cira.colostate.edu\/training\/visit\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/viirs_true_color-1024x618.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/06\/viirs_true_color-1024x618.png 1024w, https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/06\/viirs_true_color-300x181.png 300w, https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/06\/viirs_true_color.png 1650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VIIRS Imagery Band 5 (11.45um, brightness temperatures)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2250\" src=\"http:\/\/rammb.cira.colostate.edu\/training\/visit\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/viirs_i5_day_v2-1024x618.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/06\/viirs_i5_day_v2-1024x618.png 1024w, https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/06\/viirs_i5_day_v2-300x181.png 300w, https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/06\/viirs_i5_day_v2.png 1650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For the latest updates on Fuego de Volcan, click the following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/06\/03\/americas\/guatemala-fuego-volcano-erupts\/index.html\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Volcan de Fuego erupted again in southern Guatemala. The pyroclastic flow of Fuego surprised many, and as of this morning 4 June 2018, at least 25 people have died, while many others are injured. Locals near Fuego, are in the process of being evacuated from the area. Fuego erupted around 18 UTC, 3 June <a href=\"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/2018\/06\/04\/volcan-de-fuego-guatemala-erupts-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volcano-weather-aviation-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6069,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234\/revisions\/6069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}