Hurricane Sally was moving very slowly in the north-central Gulf of Mexico at sunrise on 15 September 2020. A GOES-16 Mesoscale sector placed over the storm allowed for 1-minute imagery, and the Clean Infrared window animation, above, for the 2 hours centered on Sunrise, show a compact storm south of... Read More

Sally was upgraded to a Hurricane at 1600 UTC on 14 September. (Link)Hurricane warning have been issued along the central Gulf Coast on 14 September as strengthening tropical storm Sally approached.  MIMIC estimates of total precipitable water, above, for the 24 hours ending at 11 UTC on 14 September show the moist airmass in the... Read More

GOES-16 Visible imagery, above, during the late afternoon on 6 September, shows an invigoration of the Cameron Peak fire in Larimer County, Colorado, with visible evidence of a pyrocumulus development.  Are there tools a forecaster can use to anticipate such extraordinary afternoon fire growth?NOAA-20 overflew Colorado shortly after (NOAA-20 orbits can be... Read More

The animation above shows NOAA-20 VIIRS true color imagery of Pyramid Lake (The Paiute tribe maintains a Pyramid Lake Twitter Account: Link)  in western Nevada. The Lake was closed on 21 July 2020 because cyanotoxins released during a toxic algae bloom (link). The algae bloom is apparent before the lake... Read More