GOES-16 Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 µm) images with an overlay of GLM Flash Extent Density (above) showed that there were isolated brief periods of lightning activity over parts of West Virginia / Maryland / Pennsylvania during the nighttime hours, followed by more activity off the south coast of Massachusetts during... Read More

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) images from all 16 of the ABI spectral bands in addition to a Rocket Plume RGB (above) displayed signatures of a SpaceX Starlink Mission Falcon 9 rocket that was launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California at 0034 UTC on 10 February or 4:34 PM Pacific Time on 09 February 2024. A warm thermal signature of... Read More

At the CIMSS Satellite Blog, we occasionally get emails from our readers. Yesterday’s (6 February 2024) email included this one: I was doing some forecasting for the Canadian Arctic today and noticed a veryimpressive blowing snow signature on satellite; not that blowing snow isuncommon up there, but rather that the... Read More

All 4 components of the GOES-16 (GOES-East) Fire Detection and Characterization Algorithm (FDCA) (above) showed the diurnal variability of thermal signatures associated with a large and deadly wildfire complex near Viña del Mar and Quilpué in the Valparaíso District — located along the central coast of Chile — from 02-04... Read More