A fire on Sunday 9 March in suburban Milwaukee (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel articles 1, 2, 3; I read it about it in the paper: Page 1; Page 2) burned about 100 acres just north of Capitol Drive as shown in the 10 March 2025 image above from the Journal Sentinel. What kind... Read More

In a sequence of daytime True Color RGB + Nighttime Microphysics RGB images from GOES-16 (GOES-East) and GOES-18 (GOES-West) (above), signatures of the SpaceX Starship Test Flight 8 launch were seen — the Super Heavy Stage 1 rocket booster condensation cloud cast a long shadow across the water before sunset,... Read More

CSPP Geosphere imagery on 5 March, above, (direct link to imagery), shows the development of a smoke plume from a fire at the north end of San Jose Island. When did the Next Generation Fire System first identify the fire that caused the smoke plume? The NGFS Alerts Dashboard, below, shows a detection... Read More

GOES-19 today is positioned at 89.5oW, the test position, but is presently scheduled to drift east to the GOES-East location at 75.2oW. When on station in early April, it will become the operational GOES-East satellite. CIMSS scientists have been modifying CSPPGeo software to produce products, such as LightningCast probability (available online here,... Read More