** The GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational data and are undergoing testing. **To commemorate Earth Day 2017, Full Disk images using all 16 spectral bands on the GOES-16 ABI instrument at 17:25:22 UTC on 22 April are displayed above. One feature that was prominent in most... Read More
** The GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational data and are undergoing testing. **GOES-16 was operated in “Mode 4” on 21 April 2017 — this scanning strategy provides Full Disk images every 5 minutes (the current routine scan schedule for GOES-15 and GOES-13 only provides one Full... Read More
** The GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational data and are undergoing testing. **A comparison of GOES-16 Visible (0.64 um) and Infrared Window (10.3 um) images (above) showed the development of Tropical Storm Arlene in the Atlantic Ocean on 20 April 2017. Arlene has been one of only two... Read More
** The GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational data and are undergoing testing. **A comparison of GOES-16 Lower-level (7.3 µm), Mid-level (6.9 µm) and Upper-level (6.2 µm) Water Vapor images (above) revealed the presence of numerous mountain waves over parts of California and Nevada on 13 April 2017. The more pronounced of... Read More
