1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (above) displayed the small eye-like feature associated with a warm seclusion that developed about 200 miles southeast of the New Jersey coast on 15 January 2023. Areas of deep convection around the periphery of the seclusion occasionally... Read More

GOES-16 (GOES-East) Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 µm) images with an overlay of GLM Flash Extent Density (above) covered part of a widespread winter storm event — which included thundersnow in parts of Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota and Minnesota — that occurred on 03 January 2023. Areas that reported thundersnow experienced convectively-enhanced snowfall rates... Read More

It’s very hard to choose just one event from every month of the year, but the goal is to show the range of phenomena and locations that NOAA‘s GOES ABI routinely monitors, in this case during 2022. Most loops generated are from the University of Wisconsin-Madison CIMSS Satellite Blog, which... Read More

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (above) include an overlay of GLM Flash Extent Density — which showed rapidly-cooling cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures (and intermittent lightning) over the eastern half of  Lake Erie, associated with the initial impulse of lake effect snow (LES) immediately downwind of the lake... Read More