The slider below compares two different NGFS detections over the Canadian Plains: a VIIRS image (created using data from the direct broadcast antenna at CIMSS) and a GOES-18 image. The NGFS Microphysics looks slightly different between the two because of different view angles and slightly different channel characteristics between the VIIRS... Read More
Interleaved 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector and 5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Upper-level Water Vapor images (above) displayed the SpaceX Starship 9 rocket exhaust plume thermal signature after it was launched from the Starbase facility at Boca Chica Beach, Texas at 2336 UTC on 27 May 2025. Note the change in... Read More
Imagery from the CSPP Geosphere site (link), above, shows an area of disturbed tropical weather to the south of Mexico in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The National Hurricane Center (link, and below) notes a lack of organization with slow development forecast over the next few days. (Note that GOES-West Mesoscale... Read More
5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) GeoColor RGB images with an overlay of Next Generation Fire System (NGFS) Fire Detection polygons (above) showed the dense smoke plumes and thermal signatures associated with the ongoing Nopiming Provincial Park wildfire on 22 May 2025 (this wildfire exhibited extreme behavior and also produced numerous pyrocumulonimbus clouds on 13 May).GOES-19 Visible... Read More
