GOES-16 (GOES-East) Day Cloud Phase Distinction RGB images (above) showed convection which developed just off the Lower Michigan coast in southeastern Lake Michigan — where warmer water temperatures existed — on 17 October 2022. As this convection moved inland across southwestern Lower Michigan and northern Indiana it produced a swath of rainfall and snowfall.The GOES-16 Day Cloud Phase Distinction... Read More
The intensity of Tropical Storm Karl had recently peaked late in the day on 12 October — however, 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images on 13 October 2022 (above) showed that a large, long-lived convective burst developed southeast of Karl’s center around 11 UTC. Within this larger-scale... Read More
GOES-16 (GOES-East) Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 µm) images shown above were centered over southeast Wisconsin during a period when tornadoes and damaging winds (NWS Milwaukee summary) occurred on 12 October 2022. Of note in the Water Vapor imagery was a narrow southwest-to-northeast oriented “warm/dry” (darker shades of blue) feature that appeared to align with the... Read More
GOES-17 (GOES-West) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm), “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) and Fire Temperature RGB images (above) showed a wildfire just southeast of Fort Simpson in Canada’s Northwest Territories (just north of the border with British Columbia), which produced a pair of pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) clouds late in the day on 10 October 2022. Surface winds gusting... Read More
