1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) + Fire Power derived product (a component of the GOES Fire Detection and Characterization Algorithm FDCA) and Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) images (above) showed the thermal signature associated with the Tiger Island Fire in far western Louisiana on 22 August 2023. A combination of mandatory and voluntary evacuations were... Read More

SSEC Satellite Data Service is using McIDAS-X and HereGOES software packages to create imagery from the GOES-R Solar Ultra-Violet Imager (SUVI) instrument that monitors solar ultraviolet activity. Realtime SUVI images from both GOES-16 and GOES-18 can be viewed with the SSEC Geo... Read More

A George Strait concert at an outdoor stadium (Nissan Stadium) in Nashville, Tennessee was cancelled by a forced evacuation — due to approaching thunderstorms — just before 10 PM local time on 29 July 2023 (0300 UTC on 30 July). GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (above) showed (1) the dissipation... Read More

The animation below, showing GOES-16 Clean Window infrared imagery (Band 13, 10.3 µm; processed using geo2grid, v1.1), tracks the named storm Don, first named as Subtropical Storm Don at 0900 UTC on 14 July, reclassified as Tropical Depression Don at 1500 UTC on the 17th, and upgraded to a Tropical Storm... Read More