1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Visible images with an overlay of the Fire Detection and Characterization Algorithm (FDCA) Fire Mask derived product (above) displayed the rapid growth and movement of the Jones Road Wildfire in eastern New Jersey on 22 April 2025. The initial GOES-19 FDCA fire detection occurred at 1616 UTC. In addition, the maximum... Read More
High pressure and mild temperatures over the western Atlantic and adjacent Gulf waters early on 26 February 2025 (here is the 1200 UTC surface analysis) meant NOAA-20 VIIRS data could provide near-complete views of sea- (and lake-) surface temperatures. The above image was captured from the RealEarth website. The warm waters (mid-70s oF) of the Gulf... Read More
The past few days have brought devastating rain and flooding to the Australian state of Queensland, in the country’s northeast. The community of Paluma received more than 1.4 meters (4.5 feet) of rain over the weekend, and damage to roads and bridges carried out by the torrents of water have... Read More
30-meter resolution Landsat-9 Natural Color RGB imagery at 1828 UTC on 14th January 2025 — visualized using RealEarth — showed the areal extent of burn scars from the Palisades Fire (above) and the Eaton Fire (below). The burn scars exhibited shades of tan to brown in the RGB images.Around the time of... Read More
