A display of all 16 ABI spectral bands from GOES-16 (GOES-East) showed that a hot thermal signature of the SpaceX Starship Falcon Heavy rocket booster was apparent in Near-Infrared & Infrared bands 04-16 at 2101 UTC during its Test Flight 6 on 19 November 2024. In addition, the rocket exhaust condensation cloud was... Read More
Mostly clear skies over the Great Lakes early on 18 November allowed for good satellite estimates of Lake Surface temperatures. They are, in a word, very warm. The toggle above compares estimates from NOAA-20 and from GOES-16. The stepped animation below (source) compares November 17th values this year with those... Read More
5-minute CONUS sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) Red Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) displayed an intensifying Hurricane Force low pressure system over the western Atlantic Ocean (not far off the North Carolina coast) on 15 November 2024. Note the area of haziness just west-southwest of the center of the surface low — this milky/hazy appearance was... Read More
5-minute PACUS/CONUS sector Upper-level Water Vapor (6.2 µm) images with an overlay of GLM-detected Flash Extent Density from GOES-18 (GOES-West) and GOES-16 (GOES-East) (above) showed the detection of a bolide — which according to the American Meteor Society occurred around 1333 UTC on 13 November 2024.Since the bright fireball occurred at a high altitude... Read More
