10-minute Full Disk scan GOES-19 (GOES-East) daytime True Color RGB + nighttime Dust RGB images created using Geo2Grid (above) showed a plume of blowing dust originating from the dry Lake Colhué Huapi in southern Argentina on 16 September 2026. The airborne dust appeared as shades of magenta to violet in the nighttime Dust... Read More

5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) Visible images with an overlay of the Fire Mask derived product (above) showed the evolution of the Floriston Fire thermal signature (red pixels) as the vegetation fire grew near the California/Nevada border on 16 September 2026. Evacuation Orders were issued for areas near the fire — and Interstate... Read More

JMA Himawari-9 Ash RGB images created using Geo2Grid (above) showed a major eruption of Anak Krakatau in Indonesia, which began around 1620 UTC on 04 September 2026. A middle-tropospheric volcanic ash cloud (depicted by shades of red to magenta) remained closer to the volcano — while an upper-tropospheric SO2 cloud (shades of... Read More

Wildfires continue to burn across large portions of the Pacific Northwest; you can see our earlier posts about these fires throughout the previous week. Persistent drought across the west has fostered conditions that are ideal for wildfire growth. However, the impact of these fires is being felt much further to the east as... Read More