During a period when American Samoa had been under a Flood Watch, the Weather Service Office at Pago Pago requested that a GOES-18 (GOES-West) Mesoscale Domain Sector be positioned over the region — due to their lack of radar, more frequent satellite imagery can be a critical tool for monitoring the development of deep... Read More

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Visible images (with/without an overlay of the FDCA Fire Mask derived product) and Shortwave Infrared images (above) showed the thermal anomaly associated with a fast-moving grass fire (the Sharpe Fire) that moved northeastward across the Oklahoma border into Baca County in far southeastern Colorado on 17 May 2026 —... Read More

5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) True Color RGB and Ash RGB images created using Geo2Grid (above) showed plumes of blowing dust that were lofted by strong winds on the back side of a midlatitude cyclone on 12 May 2026. The surface source of much of this blowing dust was recently-plowed agricultural fields in North Dakota,... Read More

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) GeoColor RGB images (above) showed areas of blowing dust — lofted by strong southwest winds (with gusts in the 30-40 mph range) blowing across recently-plowed agricultural fields — that were being transported northeastward from central Illinois to northern Indiana on 04 May 2026.A Blowing Dust Advisory had been issued... Read More