NOAA-20 VIIRS Day/Night Band (0.7 µm), Shortwave Infrared I04 (3.75 µm), Shortwave Infrared M13 (4.05 µm) and Longwave Infrared (11.45 µm) images (above) showed signatures of the ongoing lava flows from the Lower East Rift Zone of the Kilauea volcano on the Big Island of Hawai’i at 1225 UTC (2:25... Read More

Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20 overflew tropical depression Alberto, at 0722 and 0812 UTC, respectively (orbit paths from this site), on 30 May 2018, and the near-Full moon provided ample illumination for the Day Night Band imagery, shown above.  A motion to the northeast is apparent.  Convection developed far to the north of the storm... Read More

A toggle between NOAA-20 VIIRS Day/Night Band (0.7 µm) and Infrared Window (11.45 µm) images at 0731 UTC or 3:31 am local time (above; courtesy of William Straka, CIMSS) showed Subtropical Storm Alberto when it was centered off the southwest coast of Florida on 27 May 2018. Note that NOAA-20 imagery is... Read More

1-minute Mesoscale Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) images (above) showed a number of “hot spot” signatures (dark black to red pixels) associated with grass fires that began burning in southeastern Colorado, southwest Kansas and the Oklahoma/Texas Panhandles on 17 April 2018. These fires spread very rapidly with strong surface winds (as high... Read More