Cyclone Freddy in the Indian Ocean continues to persist and is situated along the southwest coast of Madagascar. It is currently crossing the Mozambique channel for the third time. Freddy intensified to a Category 5 storm on 2023-02-15. It is now listed... Read More
Using a combined LEO/GEO approach, ABI and VIIRS retrievals are used to estimate flooding from a satellite perspective. Individual flood products from VIIRS and ABI (or AHI, depending on location) are blended to create the NOAA LEO/GEO Flood Mapping Product.An example is shown below over the... Read More
Monthly means of full disk GOES-17 brightness temperatures1 for Bands 8, 10, and 13 have been computed from 2019 to 2021, totaling 36 months. This is an expansion of similar work that had been done for Band 13 for a single year. Band 8, centered on... Read More
Heavy rains have finally hit California, which declared a state of emergency on Wednesday January 4 due to extreme rainfall amounts. The GOES-West enhanced Band 9 imagery (6.9 µm, mid-level water vapor) illustrates how moisture associated with the recent similar Trans-Pacific atmospheric river generated heavy rainfall for much of California, Oregon, and... Read More
