5-minute PACUS Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) Mid-level Water Vapor and Upper-level Water Vapor images (above) displayed orographic waves downwind (southwest) of the Hawaiian Islands on 23 October 2025. With a ridge of high pressure north of Hawai’i (surface analyses), boundary layer flow from the northeast interacted with the topography of the island chain... Read More
Loading map … let cimssInteractiveMapBaseUrl = 'https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/wp-content/themes/cimss'; To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the GOES-A launch (GOES-A became GOES-1 on reaching geostationary orbit), this blog post contains one or two satellite animations (or images) for each of the 50 states. More on GOES-1 through GOES-19.There were experimental geostationary imagers (ATS and SMS) that preceded the first GOES.... Read More
10-minute Full Disk scan GOES-18 (GOES-West) Mid-level Water Vapor images (above) showed the remnants of Typhoon Halong (North Pacific surface analyses) as it entered the Bering Sea late in the day on 11 October, re-intensified to a Hurricane Force low pressure (Alaska surface analyses) then eventually moved inland across far western and northwestern Alaska later in... Read More
Due to a lack of radar coverage over American Samoa, WSO Pago Pago requested a 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector over the islands to monitor convective development and the potential for flash flooding. GOES-18 (GOES-West) Clean Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (above) showed rain showers that developed in the general vicinity of the American Samoa island... Read More
