By now you probably already know that a total solar eclipse will traverse North America during the afternoon of April 8, 2024. There have been many stories in the media and previous blog entries here at the CIMSS Satellite Blog: Will it be Cloudy on April 8th (2024)? and GOES Cloud Climatology on April 8th.The Washington Post liked our previous GOES cloud climatology image... Read More
10-minute Full Disk scan GOES-18 (GOES-West) “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) + Total Precipitable Water (TPW) images (above) showed the colder clouds associated with rain showers (with isolated embedded thunderstorms) and the clear-sky TPW field in the vicinity of Hawai`i during the 08-09 January 2024 time period. Surface analyses depicted a cold frontal boundary — which became more... Read More
GOES-18 (GOES-West) Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 µm) images (above) revealed a well-defined Foehn gap (narrow ribbon of darker blue enhancement) near the spine of the Sierra Nevada range in California, along with a broad “orographic crest cloud” (darker green enhancement) that extended eastward across southeast California into southern Nevada on 06 January 2024.The corresponding... Read More
Overlapping 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sectors from GOES-16 (GOES-East) provided imagery at 30-second intervals during an outbreak of severe thunderstorms (SPC Storm Reports) across parts of the Mid-South and Deep South on 09 December 2023. “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (above) included time-matched plots of SPC Storm Reports for a thunderstorm that produced a... Read More
