The Bald Mountain brush fire had been burning for several days in far western Virginia — but flared up on 12 November 2025, due to ongoing moderate drought conditions and an increase in winds west of a surface trough of low pressure. 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Visible images with an overlay of the Fire Detection and Characterization Algorithm... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Infrared images (above) showed a lake effect cloud band — exhibiting cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures as cold as -49 C (darker shades of orange) — over far southern Lake Michigan that was moving inland across parts of northwest Indiana and northeast Illinois after midnight on... Read More
A UPS freight plane crashed on takeoff from UPS’s home base in Louisville, Kentucky on 4 November 2025. The plane was bound for Honolulu, Hawaii, and thus had a significant quantity of fuel on board. Eyewitness videos showed a large fireball as the aircraft hit the ground in an industrial... Read More
5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Visible images (above) showed a rapidly intensifying Hurricane Force Low (surface analyses) that was approaching Atlantic Canada on 04 November 2025.Two examples of Metop ASCAT surface scatterometer winds having speed values greater than Category 1 hurricane intensity are shown below. 5-minute GOES-19 Water Vapor images (below) depicted a mid-tropospheric... Read More
