At 5:04 PM local time (2104 UTC) on 1 July 2025, the newest member of the geostationary ring was launched into orbit. The MTG-I3 satellite (to be renamed Meteosat 13 upon commissioning) represents a first for EUMETSAT: a hyperspectral sounder in geostationary orbit. While EUMETSAT has long supported hyperspectral sounders... Read More
The GOES-19 view of the Northern Hemisphere on the morning of 3 June 2025 showed enhanced aerosol optical depth (AOD) across much of its domain. Large regions of elevated AOD are ceen in the eastern half of the continental United States extending out into the western Atlantic Ocean, while the... Read More
Tens of thousands of baseball fans took to Chicago’s North Side on the evening of 14 May 2025 to watch a Major League Baseball game between the Miami Marlins and the Chicago Cubs. Fans of the Cubs might not remember much about the game itself (the Marlins won 3–1 with... Read More
Continuing this blog’s recent theme of discussing recent events in West Texas, a tornadic supercell has formed near Muleshoe, Texas, in the panhandle region near the Texas / New Mexico border. Both CONUS and mesoscale sector scans from GOES-19 well-captured the initiation and further development of this storm.The late morning surface analysis (1500 UTC,... Read More
