The direct broadcast antenna at the NWS forecast office on Guam processed important information to show details of Typhoon Bolaven as it passed through the Marianas Islands on 10 October. The toggle above compares VIIRS band M07 (0.865 ) and Rain Rate derived from ATMS imagery at 0338 UTC, when the typhoon was east of Guam. It passed between... Read More
Mostly clear skies over the western Atlantic on 4 October 2023 meant that the Advanced Clear Sky Processor for Oceans (ACSPO) algorithm could produce a near-complete picture of sea-surface temperatures using data from NOAA-20’s VIIRS instrument. The sinuous Gulf Stream is marked as a region of warmest waters, around 85oF... Read More
Persistent rains over the New York City metropolitan area have caused urban flooding on 29 September (29 September is the wettest day since 1948 in NYC well!). MIMIC TPW, above (source), shows moisture moving inland from the Atlantic Ocean. It’s often the case that heavy rain is accompanied by advection of moisture at multiple layers in the atmosphere; the Advected Layer Precipitable Water product,... Read More
10-minute GOES-18 (GOES-West) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) + Fire Power derived product (a component of the GOES Fire Detection and Characterization Algorithm FDCA), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm), “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) and Day Land Cloud Fire RGB images (above) showed a wildfire east of Fort Nelson (CYYE) in far northeastern British Columbia that produced 3 consecutive pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) cloud pulses late... Read More
