5-minute CONUS sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) True Color RGB images from the CSPP GeoSphere site (above) showed the northward transport of smoke from the 35,000-acre Great Lake Fire in eastern North Carolina on 21 April 2023.In a closer view using 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 True Color RGB images (below), intermittent brighter white pyrocumulus clouds were... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) images from all 16 of the ABI spectral bands (above) displayed signatures of a SpaceX Starship rocket launched from the Starbase facility in Boca Chica Beach, Texas at 1333 UTC on 20 April 2023. The rocket booster condensation cloud was evident in images from all 16... Read More
A strong cold front (surface analyses) was moving eastward from the southern Plains toward the lower Mississippi Valley on 15 April 2023 — GOES-16 (GOES-East) Total Precipitable Water and Lifted Index / Convective Available Potential Energy Derived Stability Indices (above) revealed a broad corridor of moisture and instability ahead of the cold front.1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 “Red” Visible... Read More
The SAR wind analysis above shows curious banded wind features over central Lake Huron. The bands have a vertical separation of around 10 km and exist just south of essentially calm winds (magenta in the enhancement used). Peak winds within the bands 8-10 m/s, and the (weaker) winds in between... Read More
