GOES-17 (GOES-West) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images (above) displayed the formation of an orographic rotor cloud downwind (north-northeast) of the Kigluaik and Bendeleben Mountains in the Seward Peninsula of Alaska on 27 June 2020. Even though the highest terrain in those mountain ranges was only 3700-4700 feet... Read More
GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) showed the subtle motion of ice in the southwestern portion of Hudson Bay, Canada on 25 June 2020. A slower version of the animation is available here.According to the Ice Concentration Departure from Normal map issued by the Canadian Ice Service on 22 June (below),... Read More
As a nocturnal Mesoscale Convective System dissipated over North Texas around sunrise on 23 June 2020, 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) revealed a Mesoscale Convective Vortex (MCV) — which then aided the development of new thunderstorms across northeast Texas during the subsequent afternoon and evening hours.SPC Mesoscale Analysis products at 13 UTC and 16... Read More
The major Saharan Air Layer dust outbreak (previously discussed here and here) continued its westward progression — and on 21 June 2020, GOES-16 (GOES-East) Split Window Difference (10.3 µm – 12.3 µm) and Dust RGB images (above) showed signatures of the dust (shades of tan to light brown in Split Window Difference, and shades of... Read More
