GOES-16 (GOES-East) Red Visible images and the Land Surface Temperature derived product (above) showed a large area of relatively fresh snow cover across the Plains of eastern Colorado on 11 November 2024 — this deep snow cover was the result of a closed upper-level low which moved across the area 2-3 days... Read More
5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) Nighttime Microphysics RGB + daytime True Color RGB images from the CSPP GeoSphere site (above) displayed the nocturnal thermal signatures (darker shades of violet) of a few wildfires in the vicinity or the New Jersey-New York border — particularly that associated with the larger and persistent Jennings Creek... Read More
Overlapping 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sectors provided 30-second interval GOES-19 (Preliminary/Non-operational) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) — which showed thunderstorms that produced hail to 1.75″ in diameter, wind gusts to 94 mph and several tornadoes (SPC Storm Reports) across parts of North Texas. eastern Oklahoma and far northwestern Arkansas on 04 November 2024.The corresponding 30-second GOES-19 “Clean” Infrared... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (above) showed thunderstorms that produced several tornadoes and damaging wind gusts (SPC Storm Reports) across parts of central Oklahoma on 03 November 2024. Pulses of thunderstorm overshooting tops exhibited 10.3 µm brightness temperatures as cold as -78.6ºC (brighter white pixels embedded within dark black regions)... Read More
