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Archive: Tue Jul 2017

1-minute GOES-16 images: severe thunderstorms in North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota

* GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational and are undergoing testing *Severe thunderstorms developed in the warm sector of a mid-latitude cyclone that was moving eastward along the US/Canada border on 11 July 2017.  GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (above) showed the storms that... Read More

Plotting GOES-16 GLM data in McIDAS-X

GOES-16 ABI and GLM data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational and are undergoing testing The GOES-16 Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) has achieved Beta Maturity and is being distributed via GOES Rebroadcast (GRB). A release of McIDAS-X slated for September 2017 has a GLM display, prototyped above.  GLM data processing... Read More