VIIRS Day Night Band imagery from the Direct Broadcast site in Honolulu, above, shows Hurricane Hone as it passes south of South Point on the Big Island of Hawai’i on 25 August 2024. NOAA-21, Suomoi-NPP and NOAA-20 viewed the storm at 1130, 1154 and 1218 UTC, respectively. Data were processed at the antenna with... Read More
Aurora Borealis made a return appearance to the northern United States early in the morning on 12 August. Imagery above from the VIIRS Imagery Viewer, which viewer repackages Direct Broadcast imagery processed at CIMSS with CSPP software, shows the aurora over the eastern USA at 0704 UTC o 12 August as captured by NOAA-21. The image below shows the... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) Day Fire RGB, Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm), and “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images with overlays of the Fire Power and Fire Mask derived product (2 components of the GOES Fire Detection and Characterization Algorithm FDCA) (above) displayed signatures of the Post Fire, which reportedly started around 2052 UTC on 15 June 2024 near Gorman, California (in far northwest... Read More
Thousands if not millions of people took colorful photos of the Northern Lights during the early hours of May 11th during a remarkable G5 geomagnetic storm that expanded Aurora Borealis activity southward to unusually low latitudes in the United States. The JPSS fleet of polar-orbiting spacecraft captured eight monochromatic VIIRS... Read More
