* GOES-17 images shown here are preliminary and non-operational *An 1802 UTC GOES-17 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) image with an overlay of the 12 UTC surface analysis (above) revealed a well-defined rope cloud which stretched for nearly 1000 miles, marking the cold front position at the time of the image. Rope clouds... Read More

GOES-17 Data in this post are preliminary and non-operational. The toggle above shows clean window imagery from the Advanced Himawari Imager (Band 13, 10.41 µm) on Himawari-8 (data courtesy JMA) and clean window imagery from the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI, Band 13, 10.3 µm) on GOES-17 (GOES-17 data are... Read More

GOES-17 images shown here are preliminary and non-operational When GOES-17 was in the test position at 89.5 degrees W Longitude, GOES-16 and GOES-17 in satellite projections could be used to create stereoscopic imagery (example 1; example 2; example 3); the human brain could correct for any projection differences to create 3-dimensional imagery (as... Read More

* GOES-17 images shown here are preliminary and non-operational *A GOES-17 Mid-level (6.9 µm) Water Vapor image with contours of NAM40 model 500 hPa geopotential height (above) showed an arc of dry air aloft over the far western US at 1202 UTC on 13 January 2019. This was a classic example of... Read More