1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-17 (GOES-West) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images (above) showed the evolution of the eye of Hurricane Darby as it moved westward across the East Pacific Ocean on 11 July 2022. Mesovortices were evident within the eye, along with a stadium effect eye structure —... Read More
This NOAA/NESDIS website shows small footprints where SAR observations of ice and wind (from the RADARSAT Constellation Mission — RCM — satellites and from Sentinel) are available. AWIPS-ready data are also available from an ftp site. Consider the animation of GOES-17 Band 13 imagery above, just south to the Equator, and to... Read More
An animation from the CSPP Geosphere site, above (link), shows a quiescent period in/around Samoa and American Samoa. Low clouds (purple and pink) occasionally developed overnight into showers (dark red) that then dissipated.NOAA-20 overflew the Samoan islands at around 1200 UTC on 8 July, as shown in the toggle below... Read More
The Electra Fire near Jackson, California began on the afternoon of 2022-07-04 and can be observed with GOES-West (GOES-17) satellite imagery on RealEarth. The fire produced pyrocumulonimbus clouds, or pyroCb, which are storm clouds that start due to fire conditions.As of 2022-07-05 at 15:00 UTC, the... Read More
