GOES-19 True-Color animations on 5 May and 4 May 2025 (from the CSPP Geosphere site) show a circulation cut off from the main westerlies and slowly meandering across the Ohio River Valley. The system has become a bit more symmetric on the 5th as it separates more completely from the front along the east... Read More

Storm Prediction Center storm reports for the 24 hours ending 1200 UTC on 30 April 2025 show a line of strong wind reports from the mid-Mississippi River valley east-northeastward into central Pennsylvania. What satellite products could have been useful on 29 April to anticipate the arrival of these strong winds?... Read More

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (above) showed thunderstorms that produced giant hail (as large as 5.00 inches in diameter) and damaging wind gusts (as high as 106 mph) across the Texas Panhandle and North Texas (SPC Storm Reports) on 29 April 2025. The Infrared images revealed pulses of... Read More

5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) daytime True Color RGB images created using Geo2Grid (above) provided a distinct view of widespread blowing dust (shades of tan to light brown) — that had its primary source regions in northern Mexico and southern New Mexico — on 27 April 2025. Peak wind gusts were as... Read More