5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) Visible images (above) showed ice across much of Lake Erie on 27th January 2025. The far western and far eastern parts of the lake were covered in fast ice — while the motion of drift ice within the central portion of the lake was being influenced by... Read More
5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-19 (Preliminary/Non-operational) True Color RGB images — created using Geo2Grid (below) displayed ice in southwestern/southern Lake Michigan that was being driven away from the coastlines of Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana by gusty NW winds on 14th January 2025.GOES-16 (GOES-East) Visible images (below) included plots of surface and buoy reports... Read More
GOES-16 (GOES-East) Red Visible images and the Land Surface Temperature derived product (above) showed a large area of relatively fresh snow cover across the Plains of eastern Colorado on 11th November 2024 — this deep snow cover was the result of a closed upper-level low which moved across the area 2-3 days... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) showed areas of bright sun glint off the open (ice-free) water in the Chukchi Sea — just off the coast of Alaska, from the Bering Strait to near Utqiagvik (formerly Barrow) — around 1 AM local time on 08 June 2024.... Read More
