Starting on June 19, 2024, there was a large haboob (“wall of dust”) over New Mexico and nearby regions. This was captured by both GOES-18 (1-min “mesoscale”) and GOES-16 (5-min “Contiguous U.S.”) ABI imagery. What is shown is the CIMSS true color composite imagery during the day and the “dust” RGB at night. Both animations run from approximately 21 UTC on June 19 to 04 UTC on June 20th, 2024.

Similar loop as above, but as seen from NOAA’s GOES-East.

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The imagery was generated with the geo2grid software. The data was accessed via the UW/SSEC Data Services. T. Schmit works for NOAA/NESDIS/STAR and is stationed in Madison, WI.

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Oregon has seen triple-digit (^o Fahrenheit) heat in early July 2024. (Here are records for 9 July) The animation below shows GOES-18 Land Surface Temperatures on 9 July. This hourly level-2 product is created in clear skies. It shows warmest values between 2100 and 2200 UTC on 9 July 2024. Land Surface Temperature imagery is available online at this NOAA website.

GOES-18 Band 7 imagery, below, also presented hourly instead of at its normal 5-minute cadence for the GOES-18 PACUS domain, shows a similar evolution of temperatures. The surface temperatures become just as warm as two fires, one in northern California (the Shelley Fire) and one east of Medford (the Salt Creek Fire).

Relief from the heat over western Oregon is shown in the gridded NUCAPS 850-mb temperature field shown below. In contrast to the values around 20^oC (in yellow) over eastern Oregon at 0530 UTC on 10 July, values closer to 10^oC (in cyan) are over the Pacific Ocean. That cooler airmass will help to temper the heat over western Oregon, but heat on will continue in eastern Oregon.

The National Weather Service Offices in Portland, Medford and Pendleton have more information on this event.

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The above wiki image is credited to : “Mark Wade 2003 (text) NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team 2006-09-01 (photo) Borrow-188 and Soumya-8974 (compilation) – This file was derived from: CCAFS.jpg.

All the GOES launches have been from Cape Canaveral (FL), but the launch pads used have varied over the decades. Included in the table below are select other historical rocket launches.

The instrument spectral response functions (SRF) for many of the list GEOs are posted on this UW/CIMSS calibration site.

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Thanks to all who make the satellite imagery possible, NOAA, NASA, vendors, contractors and Cooperative Institute folks. T. Schmit works for NOAA/NESDIS/STAR and is stationed in Madison, WI.

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Hurricane Beryl made a (final) landfall along the Texas Gulf Coast, near Matagorda TX, at about 4 AM CDT/0900 UTC on 8 July. VIIRS imagery, above, from the SSEC/CIMSS Direct Broadcast antenna, shows infrared (I05, 11.45 µm) imagery and Day Night Band visible (0.7 µm) imagery around the time of landfall. It is noteworthy that city lights are unable to penetrate the thick clouds (some of the reduction in light intensity might be due to power outages, as shown below from this source).

GOES-16 Clean Window imagery overlain with GLM Flash Extent Density, below, shows the evolution of the storm from 0651 UTC through 1321 UTC on 8 July. Subsequent to landfall, the satellite presentation of the storm degrades, as expected. Heavy Rains and Storm Surge along the coast will remain threats through the day on the 8th.

For the last hours of her time over the western Gulf of Mexico, Beryl was in a very favorable environment for strengthening. Shear values (source, shown below) were low and SSTs were very warm. Prior to this time, strengthening of Beryl was in part limited by a lack of an inner core, as shown in this microwave (36.5 and 89.0 GHz) toggle from 1916 UTC on 7 July, taken from the direct broadcast site at AOML; unfortunately, the 8 July 2024 morning passes of GCOM did not sample Beryl.

For the latest information on Beryl, refer to the National Hurricane Center and to local National Weather Service offices: Corpus Christi, Houston/Galveston, Lake Charles, Dallas/Fort Worth and Shreveport.

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