GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (above) showed Willa during the 48 hours that it rapidly intensified (ADT | SATCON) from a Tropical Storm at 15 UTC on 20 October to a Category 5 Hurricane at 15 UTC on 22 October 2018. Willa  — which became the third Category... Read More

More #highlatitudedust in #Greenland today! nice contrast of #MODIS and #VIIRS highlight the differences foam, sea-salt and dust aerosols , source is probabl mix of dust+snow @avoiland @jscarto @jobullard @TWMockford @HLCCD pic.twitter.com/xdm1RKoiBu — Santiago Gassó (@SanGasso) October 14, 2018 As noted by Santiago Gassó, a long and very narrow plume of... Read More

A sequence of Infrared Window images from Terra/Aqua MODIS (11.0 µm) and NOAA-20/Suomi NPP VIIRS (11.45 µm) (above) showed Category 4 Hurricane Michael as it was making its approach toward the Florida coast during the nighttime hours preceding sunrise on 10 October 2018. The yellow pixels east of the eye on the 0724 UTC VIIRS image highlighted... Read More

GOES-17 data in this post are preliminary and non-operationalCONUS (Contiguous United States) imagery at 5-minute intervals from GOES-16 at 75.2 W Longitude and GOES-17 at 89.5 W Longitude allows for Hurricane Michael to be viewed stereroscopically from space. The animation above, starting at 1142 UTC and extending to sunset, (click... Read More