Many of the islands in Indonesia have been shrouded in smoke for much of October. RGB composites from Himawari-8, above, for 0200 UTC on each day from 08-26 October 2015 testify to the dense smoke, especially over the island of Borneo. News reports suggest the haze will persist through the end of the year. This is in... Read More
GOES-15 (GOES-West) Infrared (10.7 µm) images (above; also available as an MP4 animation) displayed the formation of a ring of cold eyewall cloud-top IR brightness temperatures (in the -80 to -90º C range, violet colors) during the period of rapid intensification of Hurricane Patricia on 22 October 2015; the storm reached Category 5... Read More
A 250-meter resolution Terra MODIS true-color Red/Green/Blue (RGB) image from the SSEC MODIS Today site (above) revealed the widespread orange hue of Autumn tree colors over parts of northeastern Minnesota, northern Wisconsin, and the western Upper Peninsula of Michigan on 11 October 2015.A comparison with the corresponding MODIS false-color RGB image (below)... Read More
GOES-15 (GOES-West) and GOES-13 (GOES-East) Visible (0.63 µm) and Shortwave infrared (3.9 µm) images (above; click to play animation; also available as an MP4 movie file) showed the smoke plume and “hot spot” (dark black to red pixels) associated with a large and fast-burning grass fire in north-central Colorado on the afternoon... Read More
