The Kanlaon Volcano in the Philippines erupted at 0703 UTC on 9th December 2024. JMA Himawari-9 Air Mass RGB images from 0650-1500 UTC (above) — created using Geo2Grid — showed the volcanic cloud as it drifted westward across the Sulu Sea. This volcanic cloud was primarily composed of SO2 (along with some... Read More
GOES-16 (GOES-East) Red Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) revealed the development of Horizontal Convective Roll (HCR) clouds — a signature often associated with blowing snow — across parts of North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin on 4th December 2024. Strong northwesterly winds in the wake of an arctic cold front were... Read More
GOES-19 (Preliminary/Non-operational) Day Cloud Phase Distinction RGB images (above) — created using Geo2Grid — displayed supercooled “lake effect” clouds (shades of white) streaming southeast off Lake Sakakawea in northwestern North Dakota on 25th November 2024. A smaller cloud plume was also seen streaming southeast off Devils Lake in northeastern North Dakota. Existing snow cover appeared as shades of green... Read More
A display of all 16 ABI spectral bands from GOES-16 (GOES-East) showed that a hot thermal signature of the SpaceX Starship Falcon Heavy rocket booster was apparent in Near-Infrared & Infrared bands 04-16 at 2101 UTC during its Test Flight 6 on 19th November 2024. In addition, the rocket exhaust condensation cloud was... Read More
