A comparison of 4-km resolution GOES-15 (GOES-West), GOES-14, and GOES-13 (GOES-East) 3.9 µm shortwave infrared images (above; click to play MP4 animation; also available as a 9.4 Mbyte animated GIF) showed the development and evolution of the “hot spot” (dark black to yellow to red color enhancement) associated with a small... Read More
1-minute interval GOES-14 SRSO-R visible (0.63 µm) images (above; click image to play animation) revealed the pulsing nature of the large Cougar Creek wildfire complex burning in southern Washington (not far southwest of Yakima) on 12 August 2015. The MP4 movie file is also available as a very large (128 Mbyte)... Read More
A nighttime mesoscale convective system (MCS) developed near the Arkansas/Louisiana/Mississippi border region after about 0700 UTC (2:00 AM local time) on 11 August 2015, and began to move southeastward. A comparison of 4-km resolution GOES-13 Infrared (10.7 µm) and 375-meter resolution Suomi NPP VIIRS Infrared (11.45 µm) images (above) showed... Read More
GOES-14 is again in SRSO-R (Super Rapid Scan Operations for GOES-R) mode, affording the opportunity for 1-minute imagery over select regions of the United States. Information on the daily activity is available here; SRSO-R will continue through 21 August and serves as a reminder of the kind of routine scanning... Read More
