A tropical cyclone has developed in the Bay of Bengal and is moving northwest across the Indian subcontinent. The system is forecast to continue bringing heavy rains to Southern India until Thursday. It has already caused damage, flooding, and loss of life in Sri Lanka and India.Animations showing water vapor... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) True Color RGB images created using Geo2Grid (above) showed a distinct smoke plume associated with the Buck Fire in North Texas on 28 October 2021. The fire spread rapidly toward the southeast, driven by strong northwesterly winds gusting in excess of 40 knots. Note that the brighter white smoke plume was... Read More
Cooler temperatures across the Midwest are often heralded by thunderstorms. Yesterday evening and last night, a system brought rain and lightning to parts of Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Michigan, moving over Ohio by Thursday morning. RealEarth, a web-based visualization platform developed at UW-Madison, can display data from GOES-16 to... Read More
GOES-16 (GOES-East) True Color RGB images created using Geo2Grid (above) showed the south-southeastward drift of an ash-laden volcanic cloud from Cumbre Vieja on La Palma in the Canary Islands on 09 October 2021. Since this most recent ongoing eruptive period began on 19 September, intermittent periods of volcanic clouds with an elevated ash content... Read More
