GOES-18 images shown in this blog post are preliminary and non-operational Overlapping 1-minute Mesoscale Sectors provided 30-second images of GOES-18 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) data, which showed the circulation of a Mesoscale Convective Vortex (MCV) that moved northward across southern Nevada early in the day on 17 July 2022. Ongoing thunderstorms along the periphery... Read More

GOES-18 images in this blog post are preliminary and non-operational Overlapping 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sectors provided GOES-18 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images at 30-second intervals (above), which include time-matched SPC Storm Reports. This imagery showed widespread thunderstorms that moved eastward across Montana on 09 July 2022, which produced damaging straight-line winds as strong as 78... Read More

GOES-18  images in this blog post are preliminary and non-operational GOES-18 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images (above) showed the formation of a small pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) cloud — generated by a wildfire that was burning near the northwest coast of Great... Read More

GOES-18 images in this blog post are preliminary and non-operational GOES-18 True Color RGB images created using Geo2Grid (above) showed smoke from Alaskan wildfires that had been transported southward over Kodiak Island and the northern Gulf of Alaska. Most of this smoke remained aloft — note that although Kodiak began... Read More