Tropical Storm Chantal, the third named storm of the northern Atlantic Tropical Season, has rapidly moved through the Lesser Antilles and into the eastern Caribbean Sea. The stereoscopic view of Chantal, above, uses visible (0.65 µm) imagery from GOES-12 (over the Equator at 60 W) and visible (0.63 µm) imagery... Read More

At 1645 UTC on 6 June, an Electronics Side Swap occurred for GOES-12 to mitigate the effects of Cycle Slips that were occurring around 0800-1300 UTC each day (See this link for an explanation). No Cycle Slips occurred in the GOES-12 imager data on 7 June; as a result, the images... Read More

GOES-M was launched in 2001 and as GOES-12 served as the operational GOES-East satellite from April 1, 2003 until April 14th, 2010, and has been serving recently as GOES-South America, providing Weather Services on that Continent with routine Imager and Sounder data.Recently, the GOES-12 Imager has been experiencing ‘cycle slips‘, which manifest themselves in... Read More

A small volcanic ash plume from Popocatépetl in central Mexico was seen streaming east-southeastward on GOES-15 (GOES-West), GOES-12, and GOES-13 (GOES-East) visible channel images (above; click image to play animation) during the early morning hours on 18 April 2012. Satellite imagery over this particular region is available... Read More