GOES-19 (GOES-East) SUVI images from the SSEC Geostationary Satellite Imagery site (above) displayed a brief but strong solar flare that occurred on 04 February 2026.A bulletin issued by the Space Weather Prediction Center (below) classified the X-class flare’s intensity as X4.2. ... Read More
48 hours of 5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Water Vapor images that included hourly plots of surface weather type (above) showed the development of a winter storm that produced up to 19.5″ of snowfall and wind gusts as high as 64 mph in eastern North Carolina (storm summary) — and even... Read More
5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Visible images (above) showed the development of at least 2 mesolow circulations in southern Lake Superior (off the coast of Upper Michigan) on 29 January 2026. The combination of Fixed Buoy and METAR surface reports implied that there was convergence over the portion of the lake... Read More
5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Water Vapor images (above) included hourly plots of surface weather type (R=rain, S=snow, ZR=freezing rain, L=drizzle, F=fog) during the 4-day period (23 January – 26 January 2026) that a major winter storm impacted much of the southern and eastern US. According to the WPC storm summary, some notable storm statistics included: 23″... Read More
