GOES-17 — and GOES-18, beginning at 1801 UTC on 04 January (after GOES-18 became the operational GOES-West satellite) — Air Mass RGB images (above) showed a rapidly-intensifying Hurricane Force low pressure system (surface analyses) over the East Pacific Ocean as it approached the US West Coast during the 03 January – 04 January 2023 period... 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

GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) include plots of GOES-16 Derived Motion Winds (DMW) within the 775-900 hPa and the 900 hPa-Surface layers — which displayed a rapidly-intensifying area of low pressure (surface analyses) over the West Atlantic Ocean (south of Nova Scotia, Canada) on 12 December 2022. Note the area of haziness just... Read More

Clear skies to the west of Oregon and California in the past two days have allowed VIIRS data (VIIRS — the Visible-Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite flying on both Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20) to produce compelling imagery of the Sea Surface using Advanced Clear Sky Processing for Ocean (ACSPO) algorithms. VIIRS imagery is downlinked at... Read More