2025 has proven to be an atypically wet year for American Samoa. The cumulative precipitation chart backs that up: going back to 1 January, the total rainfall at Pago Pago has been the highest on record up to this date, and total rainfall is 70% higher than a normal year.July... Read More

A major explosion at a fireworks warehouse in Esparto, California occurred late in the afternoon on 01 July 2025, injuring 2 with 7 people remaining unaccounted for (media report). The robust thermal signature of the resulting fire was detected by the Next Generation Fire System (NGFS), using both 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West)... Read More

The EUMETSAT MTG-S1 satellite was launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida at 2104 UTC on 01 July 2025 — using a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. A thermal signature of the Falcon 9 Stage 1 rocket booster (as well as the Stage 2 rocket, after separation from the booster just before... Read More

A cluster of wildfires was burning on both sides of the Northwest Territories / British Columbia border on 28 June 2025 — and 10-minute Full Disk scan GOES-18 (GOES-West) imagery (above) showed that the largest Northwest Territories wildfire produced a sizeable pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) cloud, beginning at 2230 UTC. As it drifted... Read More