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Category: Tropical cyclones

Tropical Storm Melissa forms in the Caribbean Sea

Tropical Storm Melissa developed in the Caribbean Sea on 21 October 2025 — and 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Infrared and Visible images (above) showed that most of the deep convection (which often exhibited abundant GLM-detected lightning activity) remained west of Melissa’s surface center of circulation, due to moderate west-southwesterly deep-layer wind... Read More

Fifty Loops for the 50th Anniversary of GOES

Loading map … let cimssInteractiveMapBaseUrl = 'https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/wp-content/themes/cimss'; To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the GOES-A launch (GOES-A became GOES-1 on reaching geostationary orbit), this blog post contains one or two satellite animations (or images) for each of the 50 states. More on GOES-1 through GOES-19.There were experimental geostationary imagers (ATS and SMS) that preceded the first GOES.... Read More