1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-17 (GOES-West) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images (above) showed the formation of Hurricane Douglas — the first hurricane of the 2020 season in the East Pacific Ocean — on 22 July 2020. Douglas was the 4th latest formation of the first hurricane on record in this... Read More
GOES-16 (GOES-East) True Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images created using Geo2Grid (above) showed plumes of blowing dust originating from dry river beds along portions of the Río Grande O Guapay and Río Parapetí in southern Bolivia on 04 July 2020. Strong northerly winds developed across that region, just east of the... Read More
GOES-17 (GOES-West) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) revealed 3 cyclonically-rotating actinoform cloud structures that were moving west-southwestward toward the Hawaiian Islands on 30 June 2020 (surface analyses).A closer look at the northernmost actinoform feature showed it moving over Buoy 51000 (located 245 miles northeast of Honlulu) around 04 UTC on 01 July —... Read More
VIIRS Infrared Window (11.45 µm) images from NOAA-20 and Suomi NPP as viewed using RealEarth (above) showed thunderstorms beginning to increase in areal coverage north of and in the vicinity of American Samoa on 20 June 2020, as a surface trough north of the islands began to move southward.To monitor the... Read More
