5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-19 (Preliminary/Non-operational) True Color RGB images — created using Geo2Grid (below) displayed ice in southwestern/southern Lake Michigan that was being driven away from the coastlines of Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana by gusty NW winds on 14th January 2025.GOES-16 (GOES-East) Visible images (below) included plots of surface and buoy reports... Read More
GOES-16 (GOES-East) Red Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) revealed the development of Horizontal Convective Roll (HCR) clouds — a signature often associated with blowing snow — across parts of eastern North Dakota western Minnesota on 12th January 2025. Strong northwesterly winds in the wake of an arctic cold front were gusting to... Read More
GOES-16 Day Cloud Phase Distinction RGB imagery at 1801 UTC on 6 January 2025, above, show evidence (in greenish yellow) of a glaciated band of cloudiness that is a Lake Effect snow band that deposited from 3-6″ over extreme southeast Wisconsin, in Kenosha and Racine counties. The toggle with the radar emphasizes how Day... Read More
5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) Nighttime Microphysics RGB + daytime True Color RGB images from the CSPP GeoSphere site (above) showed several power plant condensation plumes south of Lake Sakakawea in western North Dakota on 3rd January 2025.GOES-16 Near-Infrared Snow/Ice (1.61 µm) and Day Fog (3.9-10.3 µm) brightness temperature difference images (below) suggested that particulate... Read More
