1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) True Color RGB images from the CSPP GeoSphere site (below) showed ice that had formed in far southern Lake Michigan (within the nearshore waters of Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana) on 20 January 2026.1-minute GOES-19 Visible images with plots of surface winds and surface air temperatures (below) depicted... Read More
5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) GeoColor RGB images with an overlay of Next Generation Fire System (NGFS) Fire Detection polygons (above) displayed numerous thermal signatures and smoke plumes associated with prescribed burns near the Gulf Coast of Texas and Louisiana on 15 January 2026.Two of the hottest-burning fires occurred near the coast in far southwest... Read More
10-minute Full Disk scan JMA Himawari-9 AHI Visible, Shortwave Infrared and Infrared Window images (above) showed multiple pulses of pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) clouds that were spawned by a large bushfire in southwest Queensland, Australia on 13 December 2025. The pyroCb cloud pulses exhibited a cloud-top 10.4 µm infrared brightness temperature (IRBT) of... Read More
10-minute Full Disk scan GOES-18 (GOES-West) daytime True Color RGB and nighttime Dust RGB images created by Geo2Grid (above) highlighted plumes of glacial silt being transported offshore by strong katabatic winds that were occurring in the northern Alaska panhandle on 09-10 December 2025. Note the strong pressure gradient between a ridge of... Read More
