Stories by Scott Bachmeier
Tropical Depression 2 becomes Tropical Storm Barry in the far southwestern Gulf of Mexico

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Infrared and Visible images (above) showed persistent deep convection (with sporadic lightning activity) near the center of circulation of Tropical Depression 2 (TD2), which developed in the Bay of Campeche (just off the coast of Mexico) around 2100 UTC on 28 June 2025. Periodic convective bursts contained... Read More
Wildfire in the Northwest Territories produces a large pyrocumulonimbus cloud

A cluster of wildfires was burning on both sides of the Northwest Territories / British Columbia border on 28 June 2025 — and 10-minute Full Disk scan GOES-18 (GOES-West) imagery (above) showed that the largest Northwest Territories wildfire produced a sizeable pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) cloud, beginning at 2230 UTC. As it drifted... Read More
Heavy rainfall causes flooding in Grand Island, Nebraska

Grand Island, Nebraska received 6.41″ of rainfall during the calendar day on 25 June 2025 — which set a new record for the date and for any single day during the month of June. 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Infrared images centered at Grand Island (above) included an overlay of the... Read More