Note: GOES-16 data shown on this page are preliminary, non-operational data and are undergoing on-orbit testing.A strong pre-cold-frontal squall line produced widespread severe weather (primarily damaging winds: SPC storm reports) across the eastern US on 01 March 2017. A GOES-16 Mesoscale Sector provided imagery at 60-second intervals during a portion of the... Read More

Note: GOES-16 data shown on this page are preliminary, non-operational data and are undergoing on-orbit testing.The ABI Band at 0.86 µm (Fact Sheet) allows superior land/sea discrimination. This occurs because land is more reflective to radiation at 0.86 µm than to radiation at 0.64 µm. The toggle above shows Florida in... Read More

Note: GOES-16 data shown on this page are preliminary, non-operational data and are undergoing on-orbit testing.The Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) on the GOES-R Series of satellites (including GOES-16) includes a band that detects radiation at 1.37 µm (Fact Sheet Link). This 2-km resolution band is unique to GOES-16 among geostationary satellites. The... Read More

GOES-16 — the first of the GOES-R series — ABI visible (0.64 µm) images captured the Lunar Umbra (or solar eclipse shadow) of the “ring of fire” annular eclipse that occurred in the Southern Hemisphere on 26 February 2017. The dark eclipse shadow could be seen moving from west to east, beginning... Read More