GOES-East imagery of a fire that has been burning over western New Mexico for the past week shows a plume of smoke extending eastward from the fire, and spreading out over southeast New Mexico and parts of Texas and Mexico. It is difficult indeed to find the edges of the... Read More
McIDAS images of GOES-15 6.5 µm water vapor channel data with overlays of hourly water vapor atmospheric motion vectors (above; click image to play animation) revealed the large cyclonic circulation of an upper-level low that was moving westward toward the Hawaiian Islands on 21 May – 22 May 2012. The... Read More
An annular eclipse of the sun took place on May 21, 2012, and its shadow was visible from satellite imagery (A previous example from this blog is here). The loop above shows MTSAT imagery; the shadow of the eclipse emerges shortly after sunrise and tracks northeastward into the Pacific Ocean.... Read More
A few large wildfires flared up during the afternoon hours on 20 May 2012 across parts of far eastern Ontario and far western Quebec. In a comparison of GOES-13 0.63 µm visible channel and 3.9 µm shortwave IR channel images (above; click image... Read More
