GOES-14 has entered super  rapid scan operations that will continue through 15 May 2016 (Link), in part to support the Hazardous Weather Testbed (HWT) at the Storm Prediction Center (GOES-R HWT Blog) and the VORTEX Southeast experiment. GOES-14 is viewing the central Plains today and tomorrow in anticipation of thunderstorm development. (SPC Day... Read More

A strong winter storm produced a swath of winter weather from Arkansas through lower Michigan on 23-24 February. GOES-14 SRSO-R Imagery was centered on the occluded storm on 24 February, and the water vapor animation, above (available here as an animated gif image), shows strong flow north-northwest from the Mid-Atlantic states into the Upper Midwest,... Read More

Extensive wildfires (well-forecast by the Storm Prediction Center) occurred over the southern Plains on Thursday 18 February 2016, while GOES-14 was operating in SRSO-R mode. A comparison of 1-minute GOES-14 Visible (0.63 µm) and Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) images (above; also available as a large 112 Mbyte animated GIF) showed the broad areal coverage of smoke plumes and fire... Read More

There are two animations a the top of this blog post, one with a 1-minute timestep, above, and one with a 15-minute timestep, below. The strong winter storm that hit Colorado on Monday 1 February (Blog Post) was accompanied by multiple cloud layers and snow during the day on Monday was... Read More