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

GOES-16 (GOES-East) Nighttime Microphysics RGB and Day Snow-Fog RGB images (above) showed a lake effect fog/stratus plume that was meandering slowly northward from the still-unfrozen Fort Peck Lake in northeastern Montana (just south of Glasgow) on 08 December 2022.During the hours leading up to sunrise, GOES-16 Nighttime Microphysics RGB images with an overlay of the GOES-16 Cloud Top Phase derived... Read More

GOES-16 IFR Probability fields, shown above, (click here for a slower animation) combine satellite information about low clouds with Rapid Refresh model estimates of low-level saturation. On this day, regions of observed IFR conditions (that is, ceiling less than 1000 feet and/or visibilities less than 3 statute miles) are apparent over south-central Lower Michigan, northeast... 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