Fires burning in far northern Paraguay on 29 September 2021 created a pyrocumulonimbus or pyroCb cloud — GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images (above) showed the pyroCB cloud, fire thermal anomalies or “hot spots” (clusters of red pixels) and cold cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures, respectively.... Read More
GOES-16 (GOES-East) True Color RGB images created using Geo2Grid (above) showed a long rope cloud feeding into the western portion of Tropical Invest 98L in the eastern Atlantic Ocean on 22 September 2021. The rope cloud was located near the African Monsoon Trough (12 UTC surface analysis), and north of the rope cloud the hazy appearance of... Read More
Suomi NPP Day Night imagery, in a toggle above with infrared imagery from GOES-16, (both displayed in RealEarth) depicts a classic sheared Tropical Cyclone structure to the east-northeast of the Caribbean Sea. The low-level circulation (very apparent in the nighttime visible imagery under the illumination of a near-full moon) is... Read More
GOES-16 (GOES-East) Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 µm) images (above) showed Hurricane Larry as it made landfall in Newfoundland at 0345 UTC on 11 September 2021 (causing wind gusts to 73 knots at Cape Race and 78 knots at St. Johns) — maintained hurricane intensity until 1500 UTC over the Labrador Sea — then was quickly absorbed by a large extratropical... Read More
