GOES-16 (GOES-East) True Color RGB images created using Geo2Grid (above) revealed dense smoke plumes moving southeastward from wildfires in New Mexico, while blowing dust plunged southward from Colorado/Kansas (along and behind a cold front) on 29 April 2022. Taking a closer look at the New Mexico wildfires using 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and... Read More

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) images from all 16 ABI spectral bands (above) displayed thermal signatures of the SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket booster as the Crew-4 Mission was launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on 27 April 2022. The low-altitude rocket condensation cloud was also evident, moving... Read More

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) Day Snow-Fog RGB and Near-Infrared “Snow/Ice” (1.61 µm) images (above) showed subtle signatures of a swath of hail covering the ground (initial storm report) — shades of red in the RGB images. and darker shades of gray in the 1.61 µm images — in the wake of a severe... Read More

A toggle between Suomi-NPP VIIRS Day/Night Band (0.7 µm) and Shortwave Infrared (3.74 µm) images at 0954 UTC or 3:54 am local time (above) displayed the nighttime glow and thermal signatures of actively-burning portions of the Tunnel Fire on 20 April 2022. As noted in the Inciweb report, a 10-mile section of the... Read More