GOES-17 (GOES-West) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm), “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) and Fire Temperature RGB images (above) showed a wildfire just southeast of Fort Simpson in Canada’s Northwest Territories (just north of the border with British Columbia), which produced a pair of pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) clouds late in the day on 10 October 2022. Surface winds gusting... Read More
The animation above (from the CSPP Geosphere site — click here for a direct link to the animation) shows True Color imagery (daytime) and Night Microphysics RGB (nighttime) from 2310 on 6 October through 0540 UTC on 7 October 2022 in 10-minute time-steps. Convection developed over southwest Arizona after noon on... Read More
Overlapping 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sectors provided GOES-16 (GOES-East) images at 30-second intervals from all 16 ABI spectral bands (above), which displayed the northeast-moving warm thermal signature of a SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket booster as the Crew-5 Mission was launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 16:00:57 UTC on... Read More
GOES-17 (GOES-West) Air Mass RGB images with hourly plots of surface reports (above) showed the remnants of ex-Typhoon Merbok (storm track) moving northward across the Bering Sea (surface analyses) on 16 September 2022. This strong extratropical cyclone had an anomalously-low surface pressure as it moved northward — in fact, its central Mean Sea Level Pressure set... Read More
