10-minute Full Disk scan Visible, Shortwave Infrared and Infrared Window images from GOES-18 (GOES-West) and GOES-16 (above) showed a wildfire in Canada’s Northwest Territories that produced multiple pulses of pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) clouds late in the day on 23 May 2026. Each of the pyroCb clouds exhibited slightly warmer signatures (darker... Read More
The SpaceX Starship Flight Test 12 was launched from the Starbase facility at 2230 UTC on 22 May 2026 — and 5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-16 and GOES-19 (GOES-East) True Color RGB images created using Geo2Grid (above) showed the Super Heavy rocket booster condensation cloud as it drifted away from the South Texas coast and... Read More
On the afternoon of 14 May 2026, a strong midlatitude cyclone centered over the prairie provinces of Canada forced very strong winds in the Northern Great Plains of the continental United States. This in turn lofted an extreme amount of dust into the lower atmosphere, lowering visibilities to less than... Read More
5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) True Color RGB and Ash RGB images created using Geo2Grid (above) showed plumes of blowing dust that were lofted by strong winds on the back side of a midlatitude cyclone on 12 May 2026. The surface source of much of this blowing dust was recently-plowed agricultural fields in North Dakota,... Read More
