1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) showed a supercell thunderstorm that produced a tornado, hail as large as 5.00 inches in diameter and wind gusts to 100 mph (SPC Storm Reports | NWS Aberdeen summary) in central South Dakota during the late afternoon and early evening hours on 18 July 2023. Several pulses of overshooting tops... Read More
GOES-16 (GOES-East) True Color RGB images from the CSPP GeoSphere site (above) showed dense smoke from Canadian wildfires as it moved across much of the North Central US on 15 July 2023.GOES-16 Visible images with/without an overlay of the Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) derived product is shown below — hourly Ceiling/Visibility observations indicted that the... Read More
CIMSS (Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies) anniversary is July 14, as it was established in 1980. From “about CIMSS: “… is a Cooperative Institute formed through a Memorandum of Understanding between the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1980. CIMSS operates as an institute within the Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC)”.The... Read More
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s SSEC Satellite Data Services added NOAA GOES SUVI (Solar UV Imager) images, both GOES-16 and GOES-18 (pulldown menu names: SUVI GOES-18 and SUVI GOES-18) to the Geo-Browser. More on SUVI can be found at NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center or this site. The Geo-browser SUVI page allows for longer loops, RGB composites,... Read More
