Both GOES-16 (GOES-East) and GOES-17 (GOES-West) were placed into the Mode 6 scan strategy for a 3-day period of testing beginning at 1500 UTC on 19 February 2019 — which provides Full Disk images every 10 minutes (instead of every 15 minutes for the more common Mode 3 scan strategy).... Read More
The 250-hPa jet streak currently over the CONUS contains wind speeds approaching 200 kt (230 mph) and is assoc. w/ standardized anomalies >3? spanning from Texas to Michigan. I suspect this jet streak is also helping cross-country flights arrive early on the East Coast! ? ? pic.twitter.com/z7474e6bXk — Alicia... Read More
The GOES-17 Loop Heat Pipe issue means that certain infrared bands lose data integrity at certain times, times that vary over the course of the year. Late February is a time of year when the impacts on data are very noticeable (This figure — from this blog post — shows other times of... Read More
A potent Atmospheric River is affecting the California Coast on 14 February 2019. The morphed microwave imagery, above (from this site), shows rich moisture from deep in the tropics moving onto the southern California and northwest Mexican coasts. The animation below shows the Layered Precipitable water — also a product derived... Read More
