The shallow-water natural gas drilling rig Hercules 265 (located in about 150 feet of water, 55 miles off the coast of Louisiana) caught fire late in the evening on 23 July 2013. This fire event was captured by polar orbiting satellites with VIIRS, MODIS, and AVHRR instruments (above) and also... Read More

Tropical Storm Chantal, the third named storm of the northern Atlantic Tropical Season, has rapidly moved through the Lesser Antilles and into the eastern Caribbean Sea. The stereoscopic view of Chantal, above, uses visible (0.65 µm) imagery from GOES-12 (over the Equator at 60 W) and visible (0.63 µm) imagery... Read More

Special update: GOES-13 is scheduled to become the operational GOES-East on June 6, 2013 at approximately 1545 UTC. Link.Special update #2:GOES-13 will become the operational GOES-East Satellite no sooner than Monday 10 June 2013 Link.GOES-13 will become operational GOES-East at approximately 1545 UTC on Monday June 10. Link.(Update on the... Read More

At 10:00 UTC on 23 May, GOES-14 imagery started flowing to AWIPS as the GOES-East satellite (as seen in the comparison between the 09:30 and 10:10 UTC IR images above). Work continues on evaluating the status of GOES-13. GOES-14 remains in geostationary orbit at 105.5 West longitude, and GVAR data... Read More