When Himawari-10 launches (currently scheduled for late 2028/early 2029), it will carry the GHMS, the Geostationary HiMawari Sounder, planned to give hourly sounder imagery (with more frequent observations — about 4 per hour — in smaller targetable domains, including one over Japan.) The Sounder will observe with about 4-km spatial resolution... Read More
Storm Prediction Center storm reports for the 24 hours ending 1200 UTC on 30 April 2025 show a line of strong wind reports from the mid-Mississippi River valley east-northeastward into central Pennsylvania. What satellite products could have been useful on 29 April to anticipate the arrival of these strong winds?... Read More
Power outages over the Iberian Peninsula on 28-29 April 2025 have caused wide-spread travel (and life) disruptions (Reuters link). Day Night Band imagery from the NASA Worldview Site (link), shown below, show a reduction in city lights especially over southern Spain on the 29th. The NOAA-20 overpass on 29 April was... Read More
SPC Storm reports for 1200 UTC 22 April – 1200 UTC 23 April 2025 (here) included an observation of very strong winds at the Midland Airport as shown below. (See also this link).What did the satellite imagery for this storm show? GOES-16 CONUS visible imagery, below, shows the evolution of the thunderstorm responsible... Read More
