A EUMETSAT Meteosat-10 False Color RGB product from the NOAA/CIMSS Volcanic Cloud Monitoring site (above) showed the signature of a large volcanic cloud following the explosive eruption of Hayli Gubbi in Ethiopia, which began around 0830 UTC on 23 November 2025. Since this False Color RGB product uses the 8.7 µm spectral band (which... Read More
The residents of American Samoa found themselves in the early morning hours of 20 November 2025, as strong maritime convection moved into the region. There is no radar in the area, so satellite observations are critical for operational awareness and nowcasting. The Band 13 infrared view on GOES-18 showed a... Read More
The EUMETSAT Sentinel-6B satellite was launched from Vandenberg Space Force Center in California at 0521 UTC on 17 November 2025 (9:21 PM Pacific Time on 16 November). A 1-minute multi-panel display of all 16 ABI spectral bands on the GOES-18 (GOES-West) satellite (above) showed that a thermal signature of the Falcon... Read More
10-minute Full Disk scan GOES-18 (GOES-West) daytime True Color RGB + nighttime Dust RGB images created using Geo2Grid (above) showed a plume of resuspended volcanic ash (hazy shades of tan in True Color RGB, and shades of violet in Dust RGB) from the 1912 Novarupta-Katmai eruption in Alaska — which was being... Read More
