1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) + Fire Power derived product (a component of the GOES Fire Detection and Characterization Algorithm FDCA) and Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) images (above) showed the thermal signature associated with the Tiger Island Fire in far western Louisiana on 22 August 2023. A combination of mandatory and voluntary evacuations were... Read More

GOES-18 (GOES-West) Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 µm) images (above) included plots of 1-hour Precipitation Accumulation — which showed rainfall associated with the northward spread of moisture across the Southwest US as Tropical Storm Hilary made landfall in Baja California on 20 August 2023. A similar animation with plots of 6-hour Precipitation Accumulation is... Read More

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) + Fire Power derived product (a component of the GOES Fire Detection and Characterization Algorithm FDCA), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm), “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) and Cloud Top Temperature derived product images (above) showed that the Crater Creek Fire — located in far southern British Columbia, less than 10 miles from the Washington border... Read More

10-minute Full Disk GOES-18 (GOES-West) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (above) showed clusters of convection that moved west-southwestward across Alaska’s Seward Peninsula on 11 August 2023.Beginning at 2300 UTC, a Mesoscale Domain Sector was positioned to cover western Alaska — providing images at 1-minute intervals (below).A cursor-sampled METAR... Read More