GOES-19 is on station at the GOES-East location
GOES-19, scheduled to become the operational GOES-East satellite on 4 April (Friday morning) no earlier than 7 April (updated on 3 April because of a Critical Weather Day), is now on station at 75.2oW and broadcasting data. GOES-16, to be replaced, has been shifted slightly westward; data from both satellites are remapped to a grid centered at 75oW. The comparion above shows the airmass RGB (computed using geo2grid and its underlying Satpy libraries). The two products are similar enough to be nearly indistinguishable. Scientists at CIMSS (and elsewhere) are working to make certain that the switch to GOES-19 is seamless.
The toggle below compares LightningCast probability contours on top of a Day Cloud Phase Distinction RGB — created using the CSPP Geo LightningCast software — for GOES-16 and GOES-19; the Day Cloud Phase Distinction RGB imagery is very similar and the LightningCast contours are largely the same.
