GOES-17 imagery shown here is preliminary and non-operational. The default scanning strategy for the Advanced Baseline Imager on GOES-16 is Mode 3, also known as Flex Mode.  In Mode 3, there are 2 Mesoscale Sectors scanned every minute, a CONUS sector scanned every 5 minutes, and a Full Disk... Read More

Suomi NPP VIIRS Visible (0.64 µm) and Infrared Window (11.45 µm) images (above) captured an unusually late thunderstorm that produced small hail at Anchorage PANC (surface observations) on 24 September 2018. The coldest cloud-top infrared brightness temperature was -53.8ºC, which was colder than the -46.3ºC tropopause temperature on the 00 UTC Anchorage sounding. This... Read More

Hurricane Florence maintained Category 4 intensity on the morning of 11 September 2018 — and 1-minute (initially 30-second, until 1345 UTC) Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (below) showed improving eye structure after the tropical cyclone completed an eyewall replacement cycle during the... Read More

* GOES-17 images shown here are preliminary and non-operational *GOES-17 Full Disk natural color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images (above; courtesy of Dave Stettner, CIMSS) revealed the very active tropics across the East Pacific and North Atlantic basins on 10 September 2018 — from left to right, Hurricane Olivia and Tropical Storm Paul in the Pacific... Read More