Himawari-8 Clean Window Infrared (10.41 µm) imagery shows Super Typhoon Yutu poised to hit Tinian and Saipan in the Marianas Islands, to the northeast of Guam. The 0900 UTC Advisory from the Joint Typhoon Warning Center shows a storm with sustained winds of 145 knots, with strengthening forecast. JMA estimates... Read More
The VIIRS (Visible-Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite) instrument onboard NOAA-20 includes a Day Night Band that can be used to assess, among other things, power outages after a strong storm such as Hurricane Michael. The toggle above shows Day Night Band imagery from 6 October (before Michael) and 12 October (after Michael), and the... Read More
GOES-17 data in this post are preliminary and non-operationalCONUS (Contiguous United States) imagery at 5-minute intervals from GOES-16 at 75.2 W Longitude and GOES-17 at 89.5 W Longitude allows for Hurricane Michael to be viewed stereroscopically from space. The animation above, starting at 1142 UTC and extending to sunset, (click... Read More
GOES-17 Data shown in this post are preliminary and non-operational.Continuous Full Disk (Mode 4) Testing is occurring on October 1 2018. Mode 4 is the highest data flow rate for the ABI and results in a Full Disk image every 5 minutes. No mesoscale sectors are produced during Mode 4... Read More
