GOES-16 (GOES-East) Low-level Water Vapor (7.3 µm) images, with and without a map overlay (above), revealed that a portion of the western coastline of Florida around and north of Tampa (KTBW) could be seen on the Water Vapor imagery. Although more subtle, the St. Johns River south of Jacksonville (KJAX) and... Read More

The GOES-13 satellite was brought out of storage for annual maintenance activities on 13 February 2019 — allowing for a unique view of the Seattle, Washington area from that satellite as well as GOES-15, GOES-16 (GOES-East) and GOES-17 (GOES-West). After receiving significant snowfall during the previous several days, snowcover was abundant... Read More

GOES-S (named GOES-17 once it reached geostationary orbit) was launched on 01 March 2018. Beginning at 1800 UTC on 12 February 2019, it became the operational GOES-West satellite (replacing GOES-15, which was launched in March 2010). The period of transition to operational status is shown on Full Disk images of “Red”... Read More

* GOES-17 images shown here are preliminary and non-operational *1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-17 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images from the AOS site (above) showed the distinct circulation of a strong midlatitude cyclone (surface analyses) that was centered just north of Hawai’i on 10 February 2019. The pressure gradient associated with this storm produced... Read More