During a period when American Samoa had been under a Flash Flood Watch, the Weather Service Office at Pago Pago requested that a GOES-18 (GOES-West) Mesoscale Domain Sector be positioned over the region (due to their lack of radar, satellite imagery can be a critical tool for monitoring the development of deep convection).... Read More
In the afternoon and evening of 23 April 2026, numerous tornadoes touched down across the Great Plains of the continental United States. The storm reports gathered by NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center show a line of tornadoes extending from central Iowa down to north central Oklahoma, accompanied by numerous reports of large hail... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Infrared images (above) included plots of 1-minute GLM Flash Points (which are parallax-corrected to correspond to their surface locations) — and showed an increase in thunderstorm coverage and lightning activity across southeastern Wisconsin late in the day on 15 April 2026.Unfortunately, one lightning-related fatality occurred south of... Read More
As the Artemis II mission (which launched on 01 April) was coming to its successful end late in the day on 10 April 2026, the Orion crew module “Integrity” approached the designated landing site off the coast of San Diego, California. The Orion module generated immense heat (up to 5000°F or... Read More
