10-minute Full Disk scan Dust RGB images from GOES-18 (GOES-West), GOES-17, GOES-19 (Preliminary/Non-operational) and GOES-16 (GOES-East) created using Geo2Grid (above) showed vivid signatures of blowing dust (brighter shades of magenta) that originated over parts of northern Mexico and southwestern New Mexico — and was subsequently transported northeastward across southern New Mexico... Read More

10-minute JMA Himawari-9 AHI “Red” Visible (0.64 µm), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.4 µm) images (above) showed the formation of a pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) cloud that was spawned by a bushfire in Grampians National Park in far southeast Australia on 4th February 2025. The pyroCb exhibited cloud-top 10.4 µm... Read More

5-minute PACUS Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) True Color RGB images from the CSPP GeoSphere site (above) displayed the bright white signature of fresh snow cover on the summits of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa on the Big Island of Hawai`i on 1st February and 2nd February 2025. This snowfall occurred as a... Read More

For the second day in a row, residents of the southern United States have awoken to dense fog advisories. A view of the continental United States surface map shows that overall, there is very weak synoptic forcing across the south, which results in calm winds and little mixing or advection.... Read More