A toggle between NOAA-20 VIIRS Day/Night Band and Infrared Window images valid at 0827 UTC (2:27 AM local time) on 22 January 2024 (above) showed an opening of the Kivalliq Polynya along the northwest coast of Hudson Bay — which was the result of a period of strong offshore winds (Arviat Airport CYEK observations),... Read More
Target Sector (2.5-minute interval) JMA Himawari-9 AHI Clean Infrared Window (10.4 µm) images (above) showed Tropical Invest 90P as it moved westward across the Coral Sea on 20 January 2024. Intermittent convective bursts within the growing cold cloud canopy contained multiple overshooting tops that exhibited infrared brightness temperatures of -100ºC or colder (internal clusters of red pixels... Read More
Overlapping 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sectors provided GOES-16 (GOES-East) images at 30-second intervals from all 16 of the ABI spectral bands in addition to a Rocket Plume RGB (above), which displayed the northeast-moving warm thermal signature of a SpaceX Falcon 9 stage 1 rocket booster as the Ax-3 Mission was launched from NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida... Read More
GOES-18 (GOES-West) and GOES-16 (GOES-East) True Color RGB images from the CSPP GeoSphere site (above) showed hazy arcs of blowing dust lofted by Tehuano gap winds that emerged from the south coast of Mexico — which spread out across the Gulf of Tehuantepec and the adjacent waters of the Pacific Ocean... Read More
