1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) daytime True Color RGB images created using Geo2Grid (above) showed blowing dust (shades of tan) — lofted by strong southerly thunderstorm outflow winds with gusts as high as 60-70 mph — as it moved northward across northeastern Illinois and northwestern Indiana (and eventually southern Lake Michigan... 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
10-minute Full Disk scan GOES-19 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (above) showed that a wildfire in central Saskatchewan produced a pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) cloud on 08 May 2025 (this was the first documented pyroCb of the 2025 North America wildfire season). The... Read More
5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) daytime True Color RGB images created using Geo2Grid (above) provided a distinct view of widespread blowing dust (shades of tan to light brown) — that had its primary source regions in northern Mexico and southern New Mexico — on 27 April 2025. Peak wind gusts were as... Read More
