Daynight band imagery from the CIMSS Direct Broadcast antenna (processed by CSPP software) early on 6 February 2023 showed a curious region of darker reflectance over western Hudson Bay (VIIRS imagery is available from this temporary file; microwave imagery from ATMS at the same time is available from this temporary file). The toggle below, between the VIIRS I04 (3.74 µm) brightness temperature... Read More
GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images which include plots of GOES-16 Derived Motion Winds within the Suface-900 hPa layer (above) showed the eastward transport of several ice floes from the northern portion of Green Bay into Lake Michigan on 30 January 2023. Surface wind gusts and Derived Motion Wind speeds were generally in the... Read More
It’s very hard to choose just one event from every month of the year, but the goal is to show the range of phenomena and locations that NOAA‘s GOES ABI routinely monitors, in this case during 2022. Most loops generated are from the University of Wisconsin-Madison CIMSS Satellite Blog, which... Read More
A sequence of GOES-16 (GOES-East) Nighttime Microphysics RGB and Day Snow-Fog RGB images (above) showed the nocturnal development of lake effect fog/stratus plumes (lighter shades of yellow), which drifted northward from Lake Sakakawea in northwestern North Dakota on 26 October 2022. Two of the fog/stratus features moved across the Tioga and Stanley areas, where surface... Read More
