CSPP Geosphere animations from GOES-West (above, link) and GOES-East (below, link) both show an active fire — the Cedar Creek fire — over Oregon (previously discussed here). Low-level winds (as shown in the 1200 UTC sounding from Medford OR) are moving the smoke plume out over the Pacific Ocean. The oblique side-view from GOES-East (below) gives a... Read More

GOES-16 (GOES-East) True Color RGB and Nighttime Microphysics RGB images from the CSPP GeoSphere site (above) showed an arc of blowing dust (along with multiple wildfire smoke plumes) moving northward across northern Argentina — behind a cold front — on 15 August 2022.Embedded within the broad arc of blowing dust were dense plumes... Read More

GOES-16 (GOES-East) True Color RGB images created using Geo2Grid (above) covered the daytime period from 1130-2250 UTC on 08 August, 09 August and 10 August 2022 — and displayed the hazy signature of Saaran Air Layer (SAL) dust as it approached the Southeast US coast (Florida, Georgia and South Carolina in particular).... Read More

GOES-17 captured ash blowing off Mount St. Helens in Washington State, which erupted over forty years ago. The blowing debris can be seen from the GOES-17 ABI in this true color animation from 13:00 UTC to 16:50 UTC on 8-3-2022. ... Read More