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
The Madison DBPS site (and other DBPS sites as detailed here) allows a user to view — in near-real time — derived MIRS imagery at different frequencies, such as the 165 GHz imagery below from NOAA-20 at 0728 UTC on 21 April 2025.You’ll notice that (at present), a colorbar is not embedded within the... Read More
The Direct Broadcast Processing System (DBPS) at SSEC/CIMSS now has a website (http://erb-dbps.ssec.wisc.edu/browser/MADISON/) that serves up VIIRS imagery and products that become available very quickly. As I type this at 2011 UTC, for example, NOAA-21 data from the 1937 UTC overpass is available. The animation below shows 3 different true-color... Read More
