GOES-19 (Preliminary/Non-operational) Day Cloud Phase Distinction RGB images (above) — created using Geo2Grid — displayed supercooled “lake effect” clouds (shades of white) streaming southeast off Lake Sakakawea in northwestern North Dakota on 25th November 2024. A smaller cloud plume was also seen streaming southeast off Devils Lake in northeastern North Dakota. Existing snow cover appeared as shades of green... Read More
A display of all 16 ABI spectral bands from GOES-16 (GOES-East) showed that a hot thermal signature of the SpaceX Starship Falcon Heavy rocket booster was apparent in Near-Infrared & Infrared bands 04-16 at 2101 UTC during its Test Flight 6 on 19th November 2024. In addition, the rocket exhaust condensation cloud was... Read More
The Storm Prediction Center issued an Extreme Fire Weather Outlook (note that those conditions are #6 on the Priority List for Mesoscale Sectors!) for portions of southern California on 6 November 2024, and the forecast office in Los Angeles issued both High Wind Warnings — for strong Santa Ana winds — and a Red Flag Warning, as shown here, noting that this was a Particularly Dangerous... Read More
Overlapping 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sectors provided 30-second interval GOES-19 (Preliminary/Non-operational) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) — which showed thunderstorms that produced hail to 1.75″ in diameter, wind gusts to 94 mph and several tornadoes (SPC Storm Reports) across parts of North Texas. eastern Oklahoma and far northwestern Arkansas on 04 November 2024.The corresponding 30-second GOES-19 “Clean” Infrared... Read More
