NOAA‘s GOES ABI has been monitoring the late year cold air outbreak over the contiguous US. Infrared ImageryDuring these extreme cold air outbreaks, it may seem like the infrared imagery “confuses” clouds and the cold ground, but this isn’t the case as the instrument just monitors the heat of the... Read More
A timely overpass of Landsat-9 provided a 30-meter resolution “Natural Color” RGB image of the Mauna Loa eruption site at 2048 UTC on 02 December 2022 — as viewed using RealEarth (above). The signature of hot lava (varying shades of red to yellow) flowing from the volcano’s Northeast Rift Zone... Read More
GOES-16 (GOES-East) Mid-Level Water Vapor (6.9 µm) and Air Mass RGB images (above) covered the period 0600-1800 UTC on 03 November 2022 — during which Category 1 Hurricane Martin transitioned to an extratropical cyclone over the North Atlantic Ocean (surface analyses). West of Martin, the large area of orange-to-red hues on the Air Mass... Read More
Hurricane Martin, now in the north Atlantic, continues to move northeast and is expected to become a post-tropical cyclone in the next few hours. It was named a Hurricane on Wednesday, 2022-11-02 around 15UTC. Its maximum sustained winds are 85 mph (140 km/h). By the weekend, Martin’s swells will be... Read More
