The animation below from the CSPP Geosphere website (direct link to animation) shows regions of low clouds, some of which develop in the vertical, and some of which do not (see annotated image underneath the animation). Is there a product that can be used to discriminate between these two regions?GOES-18 Total Precipitable Water fields,... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images with an overlay of the Total Precipitable Water derived product (in non-cloudy areas) (above) showed that an axis of moisture was initially in place across all the Samoan Islands — peak TPW values were in excess of 2.0 in (brighter shades of magenta). The axis of... Read More
he NWS Forecast Office in Honolulu late on Thursday (8:33 PM local time 11 April, or 0633 UTC on 12 April) issued a Severe Thunderstorm warning for the island of Niihau to the southwest of Kauai. Subsequently, flood warnings were issued for Kauai. The animation above (from the southwest corner of the GOES-18 PACUS domain) shows the... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) images from all 16 of the ABI spectral bands — in addition to a Rocket Plume RGB (above) displayed signatures of the SpaceX USSF-62 Mission (to deploy the new WSF-M satellite) Falcon 9 rocket that was launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California at 1425 UTC on 11 April 2024.... Read More
