GOES-East imagery of a fire that has been burning over western New Mexico for the past week shows a plume of smoke extending eastward from the fire, and spreading out over southeast New Mexico and parts of Texas and Mexico. It is difficult indeed to find the edges of the... Read More
An annular eclipse of the sun took place on May 21, 2012, and its shadow was visible from satellite imagery (A previous example from this blog is here). The loop above shows MTSAT imagery; the shadow of the eclipse emerges shortly after sunrise and tracks northeastward into the Pacific Ocean.... Read More
On the morning of May 14th, a clear morning, the GOES-13 Legacy “Fog Product” that exploits the brightness temperature differences observed by the GOES Imager at 3.9 µm and 10.7 µm, which differences arise because of wavelength-dependent emissivity differences in water clouds, showed fog first on the eastern shores of... Read More
GOES-M was launched in 2001 and as GOES-12 served as the operational GOES-East satellite from April 1, 2003 until April 14th, 2010, and has been serving recently as GOES-South America, providing Weather Services on that Continent with routine Imager and Sounder data.Recently, the GOES-12 Imager has been experiencing ‘cycle slips‘, which manifest themselves in... Read More
