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Category: General interpretation

GOES-13 outage

GOES-13 suffered an anomaly overnight: the satellite is no longer pointed towards the Earth for as yet unknown reasons. The anomaly started at 03:40 UTC on 22 May, and at 04:29 UTC, GOES-15 (GOES-West) began a 30-minute full disk scan schedule.Successive images from just before the anomaly (above), at nominal... Read More

Germann Road fire in northern Wisconsin

McIDAS images of GOES-13 0.63 µm visible channel and 3.9 µm shortwave IR channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed the large smoke plumes and fire “hot spots” (dark black pixels on the shortwave IR imagery) associated with the Germann Road Fire in northwestern Wisconsin and the Green Valley Fire... Read More