GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) showed a large Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) which produced a long-lived path of large hail and damaging winds from eastern Nebraska to western Tennessee on 28 June 2018. The length and duration of damaging wind events (SPC storm reports) qualified this event as a derecho.The corresponding GOES-16... Read More
Comparisons of NOAA-20 and Suomi NPP VIIRS Day/Night Band (0.7 µm) and “Fog Product” Infrared Brightness Temperature Difference images (above) showed the nighttime formation of river valley fog in parts of the Mississippi River and its tributaries in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa on 28 June 2018. Due to ample illumination... Read More
GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (above) showed the Spring Fire which began burning just west of La Veta Pass (station identifier KVTP) in south-central Colorado on 27 June 2018. The fire produced a small pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) cloud around 0100 UTC, which drifted slowly to... Read More
Onset of the #SierraNegra #eruption (#Galapagos) in the afternoon of June 26 captured by GOES & other satellites. The previous two Sierra Negra eruptions (1979 & 2005) both emitted a lot of SO2. Source: @NOAA/@UWCIMSS volcanic cloud monitoring system; https://t.co/OZWmWBOVs9 pic.twitter.com/Gg3Yqw6pp3 — Simon Carn (@simoncarn) June 27, 2018 GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Clean”... Read More
