10-minute Full Disk scan GOES-18 (GOES-West) nighttime Dust RGB and daytime True Color RGB images created using Geo2Grid (above) showed a plume of resuspended ash (shades of pink in Dust RGB, hazy shades of tan in True Color RGB) from the 1912 Novarupta-Katmai eruption in Alaska, which was being transported offshore across... Read More
Aided by strong southwesterly winds gusting as high as 72 knots (83 mph) behind a cold front, more than 130 wildfires rapidly developed and spread across 44 counties in Oklahoma on 14 March 2025. 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) Visible images (above) included overlays of 1-minute GOES-16 Fire Mask derived product (a component... Read More
W-NW winds gusting in excess of 50 mph in the wake of a cold front lofted areas of blowing dust across parts of Texas on 12 March 2025, as seen in GOES-16 (GOES-East) Visible images (above). Blowing dust reduced the visibility to 1-1/2 miles at times along the Interstate 20... Read More
A sequence of Suomi-NPP VIIRS Visible images (above) showed the formation of large ice leads in the eastern Beaufort Sea — as well as the growth of a polynya adjacent to the coast near the Alaska/Yukon border — during the 5-day period from 07-11 March 2025.Suomi-NPP VIIRS Shortwave Infrared images... Read More
