* GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational and are undergoing testing *The Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE) for September 2017 set a new record for any month over the North Atlantic basin: Since it was released on a Sunday morning, many missed the monthly summary from NHC confirming... Read More
A toggle between nighttime images of Suomi NPP VIIRS Infrared Window (11.45 µm) and Day/Night Band (0.7 µm) data at 0347 UTC (courtesy of William Straka, SSEC/CIMSS) showed a high-resolution view of the eye of Category 3 Hurricane Irma. GOES-16 data (ABI and GLM) posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational... Read More
* GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational and are undergoing testing *As Harvey moved across warm waters in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico (SST | OHC), it continued to intensify (ADT | SATCON) to a Category 4 hurricane just before making landfall along the Texas coast around 03... Read More
GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational and are undergoing testingHurricane Gert, a Category-1 storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale, is over the open Atlantic Ocean east of Cape Hatteras. It is close enough to the USA, however, that it is within GOES-16’s CONUS domain where 5-minute sampling is... Read More
