10-minute Full Disk scan GOES-18 (GOES-West) “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images and “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images with an overlay of the FDCA Fire Mask derived product (above) showed that a large wildfire south of La Ronge (station identifier CYVC) in central Saskatchewan produced a pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) cloud during... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) daytime True Color RGB images created using Geo2Grid (above) showed blowing dust (shades of tan) — lofted by strong southerly thunderstorm outflow winds with gusts as high as 60-70 mph — as it moved northward across northeastern Illinois and northwestern Indiana (and eventually southern Lake Michigan... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Visible (0.64 µm) with an overlay of the FDCA Fire Mask derived product (above) showed the large thermal anomaly associated with a wildfire in the Nopiming Provincial Park (located just west of the Manitoba/Ontario border) as it made a rapid northeastward run of ~20 miles on... Read More
Due to a lack of radar coverage over American Samoa, WSO Pago Pago requested 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector coverage over the islands to monitor convective development and the potential for flash flooding. GOES-18 (GOES-West) Clean Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (above) showed showers and thunderstorms that developed in the general vicinity of the... Read More
