Heavy rains during the first week of April have led to significant flooding along the Ohio (and other) Rivers. The slider above compares True-Color imagery from CSPP Geosphere on 24 March — long before the rains — and on the morning of 7 April 2025 — during the floods. The expansion of... Read More
GOES-16 became the operational GOES-East back in December of 2017 (link). At 1510 UTC, GOES-19 replaced by GOES-16 as the operational GOES-East. GOES-16 is now the back-up satellite for GOES-East and GOES-West, and will presently move to the storage position at 105oW. The animation below from the CSPP Geosphere site shows GOES-16 and then GOES-19 true-color imagery. There... Read More
During what was the last full day of GOES-16’s duty as GOES-East, a comparison of Shortwave Infrared Images from GOES-16 and GOES-19 (Preliminary/Non-operational) (above) showed thermal signatures of prescribed burning in the Flint Hills area of eastern Kansas. These annual Springtime prescribed burns are performed by cattle ranchers in order to... Read More
Light winds and clear skies with High Pressure over the western Great Lakes fostered the development of a warm(ish) patch of water over central Lake Michigan on 6 April 2025. (This has happened before!) Light winds means little vertical mixing in the surface layer of the lake, and solar insolation can heat the water. The... Read More
