The launch of SpaceX Starship Flight 14 occurred at 12:48 UTC on 28 September 2026, from their Starbase facility along the South Texas coast. 1-minute imagery was not available for this launch — as it was for several previous Starship launches, most recently Flight 11 and Flight 9 — but the CONUS Sector GOES-19... Read More
5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Water Vapor images (above) included plots of surface pressure contours and surface fronts — which showed the evolution of a strong Nor’easter (Mean Sea Level Pressure anomaly) that produced high winds and/or heavy rainfall from Maryland to Maine (WPC Storm Summary) from 25 September – 27 September 2026. There were a few METAR sites... Read More
10-minute Full Disk scan GOES-19 (GOES-East) daytime True Color RGB + nighttime Dust RGB images created using Geo2Grid (above) showed a plume of blowing dust originating from the dry Lake Colhué Huapi in southern Argentina on 16 September 2026. The airborne dust appeared as shades of magenta to violet in the nighttime Dust... Read More
JMA Himawari-9 Ash RGB images created using Geo2Grid (above) showed a major eruption of Anak Krakatau in Indonesia, which began around 1620 UTC on 04 September 2026. A middle-tropospheric volcanic ash cloud (depicted by shades of red to magenta) remained closer to the volcano — while an upper-tropospheric SO2 cloud (shades of... Read More
