Thermal signatures of the still-unfrozen water of Lake Oahe reservoir (along the Missouri River, in central South Dakota) were evident in GOES-16 (GOES-East) Infrared, Low-level Water Vapor and Mid-level Water Vapor images on 19th January 2025 (above). As a result of cold arctic air (morning low temperatures across western/central SD were generally in... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) Visible images (above) revealed horizontal Convective Roll (HCR) clouds that are often associated with areas where blowing snow is occurring — such as was the case across parts of eastern North Dakota and western Minnesota on 17th January 2025. With strong N-NW winds (in the wake of an... Read More
5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-19 (Preliminary/Non-operational) True Color RGB images — created using Geo2Grid (below) displayed ice in southwestern/southern Lake Michigan that was being driven away from the coastlines of Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana by gusty NW winds on 14th January 2025.GOES-16 (GOES-East) Visible images (below) included plots of surface and buoy reports... Read More
30-meter resolution Landsat-9 Natural Color RGB imagery at 1828 UTC on 14th January 2025 — visualized using RealEarth — showed the areal extent of burn scars from the Palisades Fire (above) and the Eaton Fire (below). The burn scars exhibited shades of tan to brown in the RGB images.Around the time of... Read More
