1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images (above) showed clusters of thunderstorms that developed along and just behind a cold front moving eastward across Minnesota on 08 August 2020. The northernmost hail-producing thunderstorm in Minnesota exhibited an Above-Anvil Cirrus Plume (reference | VISIT training); in addition, a decaying thunderstorm complex in southeastern... Read More

A previous blog post (link) detailed how to access NOAA CLASS to create Gridded NUCAPS (NOAA-Unique Combined Atmospheric Processing System) imagery from those data.  (You can also view some gridded NUCAPS fields here;  click here to see the 850-mb field of Temperature from that site, it is very similar to... Read More

A sequence of 3 VIIRS True Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images from Suomi NPP and NOAA-20 as visualized using RealEarth (above) showed plumes of blowing dust moving off the coast of Namibia and South Africa on 07 August 2020.EUMETSAT Meteosat-11 Visible (0.6 µm) images (below) displayed the motion of the dust... Read More

VIIRS Today, like MODIS today, subsects the US into 8 sectors of equal size. If you live in central South Carolina, or in the middle of Florida, for example, the Sector 7/Sector 8 seam is right on top of you. Perhaps you want to view the entire Great Lakes in one image, rather than... Read More