GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm), “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) and Cloud Top Temperature product images displayed using AWIPS (above) showed the formation of a pyroCumulonimbus (pyroCb) cloud generated by the Delta Fire in Northern California late in the day on 05 September 2018. As the pyroCb cloud drifted eastward toward the California/Nevada... Read More
GOES-17 Data shown here are preliminary and non-operational! Stereoscopic views (using GOES-16 and — preliminary and non-operational — GOES-17 Visible (0.64 µm) imagery) of strengthening Tropical Storm Gordon are shown above. The stereoscopic view shows an initially sheared storm, with the surface circulation apparent becoming somewhat less sheared as convection redevelops... Read More
* GOES-17 images shown here are preliminary and non-operational *1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-17 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) showed the dissipation of fog and stratus across the San Francisco Bay area on 03 September 2018. However, as most of the fog/stratus dissipated or retreated westward toward the coast in response to... Read More
* GOES-17 images shown here are preliminary and non-operational *A comparison of Visible images from GOES-15 (GOES-West), GOES-17 and GOES-16 (GOES-East) (above) showed an isolated thunderstorm that developed in the Nebraska Panhandle late in the day on 29 August 2018. The storm produced hail (SPC storm reports), and also exhibited an Above Anvil Cirrus Plume.... Read More
