A GOES-13 (GOES-East) North/South Station Keeping maneuver was performed on Wednesday, February 19, 2014, beginning 1145 UTC, and ending at 1945 UTC (Link). During this time, the navigation of the satellite degraded mostly in the north-south direction. At 1945 UTC, after the maneuver ended, the navigation snapped back to normal.... Read More
GOES-13 has been placed into Super Rapid Scan Operations (SRSO) mode today to support the OWLeS program over the eastern Great Lakes, providing periods of 1-minute interval imagery each hour. The extraordinary cold air over the eastern United States is producing heavy lake-effect snows over downwind of Lakes Erie (above)... Read More
The volcano Chapparastique in eastern El Salvador near the city of San Miguel experienced a brief eruption on Sunday the 29th of December (YouTube video). Half-hourly 0.63 µm visible channel imagery from GOES-13 or GOES-East (the most frequent imagery available at 13.5º N, the... Read More
Cyclone Cleopatra moved through the central Mediterranean Sea, causing flooding in Italy and Sardinia (BBC News Link) with northeastern Sardinia particularly hard hit. The infrared imagery from Meteosat-10, above, and the water vapor imagery, below, shows the slow movement of the entire system within the Mediterranean basin, as well as the strong... Read More
