A 30-meter resolution Landsat-8 False Color image viewed using RealEarth (above) displayed thin filaments of ice (brighter shades of cyan) in far western Lake Superior, just off the northern coast of Wisconsin, on 27 April 2022. Chequamegon Bay in northern Wisconsin also had significant amounts of ice remaining from the winter months.... Read More
JMA Himawari-8 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.4 µm) images (above) showed signatures of a rapidly-spreading grassland fire in eastern Mongolia’s Numrug National Park (near the border with China) on 19 April 2022. The fast rate of northeastward growth of the dark burn scar in... Read More
Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) are rules and guidelines put in place by the Federal Aviation Administration that govern conditions in which “flight by outside visual reference is not safe”, whether by low clouds or fog. Cloud and reflectance data from geostationary satellites GOES-16 and GOES-17 provide a satellite IFR Probability... Read More
A squall warning was issued for areas of southern Quebec and Ontario as well as New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine on Sunday, February 27, 2022. The eastward moving system was surrounded by a lower deck of organized stationary wave clouds as seen in this high-resolution GOES-16 Band 2... Read More
