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

Iceland enjoyed a remarkable string of clement weather in mid-May. The true-color animation below, taken from the NASA Worldview site, shows almost a fortnight of clear skies!VIIRS gives a high-resolution view of the surface and cloud features as shown above. JPSS satellites carry sounder instruments used to create NUCAPS data; NUCAPS profiles... Read More

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Visible (0.64 µm) with an overlay of the FDCA Fire Mask derived product (above) showed the large thermal anomaly associated with a wildfire in the Nopiming Provincial Park (located just west of the Manitoba/Ontario border) as it made a rapid northeastward run of ~20 miles on... Read More

It was another clear night over the Great Lakes on 12 May 2025 and NOAA-20 had a descending orbit over western lower Michigan around 0740 UTC that allowed a view of all five Great Lakes. CSPP software running at CIMSS produces both SDR (Sensor Data Record) and EDR (Environmental Data Record) files that can be... Read More