This NOAA/NESDIS website shows small footprints where SAR observations of ice and wind (from the RADARSAT Constellation Mission — RCM — satellites and from Sentinel) are available. AWIPS-ready data are also available from an ftp site. Consider the animation of GOES-17 Band 13 imagery above, just south to the Equator, and to... Read More

Q: Can geostationary imagers see the very thin, very high Noctilucent Clouds? A: Yes and no, depending on the satellite, how data are processed, time of the year, time of the day and spectral band. Thanks to Simon Proud for this tweet using JMA‘s Advanced Himawari Imager (AHI): Whoa, awesome view of #Noctilucent... Read More

With the help of NASA, private industry and others, NOAA’s GOES-2 (as GOES-B) was launched on June 16, 1977. Similar to SMS-1/2 and GOES-1/3, there were 2 spectral bands: one visible and one longwave infrared. A still image with a map overlay is also available to provide geo-referencing for the images... Read More

GOES-18 images in this blog post are preliminary and non-operationalOverlapping 1-minute Mesoscale Sectors provided GOES-18 imagery at 30-second intervals — and “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) showed the development of showers and thunderstorms across western New Mexico and far eastern Arizona on 11 June 2022.In northeastern New Mexico, another feature of interest... Read More