In-flight turbulence affected Hawaiian Air Flight 51 (JFK to HNL) late in the afternoon on 17 November 2021 (Click here for the flight path from the flightaware website. A screen-capture of the flight levels, below (cropped from the FlightAware website), shows turbulence occurring between 0141 and 0145 UTC on 18 November as... Read More
GOES-17 (GOES-West) True Color RGB images created using Geo2Grid (above) showed a cyclonically-rotating actinoform cloud feature that was moving west-southwestward across the East Pacific Ocean (about midway between Hawai’i and California) on 16 November 2021.In GOES-17 Day Cloud Phase Distinction RGB images (below), the increasing shades of green exhibited by the curved bands of... Read More
On 10 November 2021, SpaceX and NASA launched the Crew-3 mission to the International Space Station from Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 7:03 pm EDT (0203 UTC on 11 November). GOES-16 (GOES-East) Mesoscale Domain Sector 1 provided images at 1-minute intervals (above) — reflectance and/or thermal signatures of the Falcon-9 rocket booster were... Read More
GOES-17 (GOES-West) Mid-level (6.9 µm) Water Vapor images (above) revealed a complex pattern of middle-tropospheric vortices moving slowly west-southwestward over Interior Alaska and the Chukchi / Bering Seas on 09 November 2021. Note that the cold (brighter white) peaks of a few of the higher mountain ranges — including Denali — could... Read More
