10-minute Full Disk scan GOES-18 (GOES-West) daytime True Color RGB and Nighttime Microphysics RGB images — created using Geo2Grid (above) — showed the offshore transport of glacial silt from the Copper River Delta in Southcentral Alaska from 11-23 December 2025. Even though cloud cover occasionally obscured the signature of this plume of airborne... Read More

One of the most common sayings that a young meteorologist learns early in their education is that “air acts as a fluid.” Gap winds are an excellent illustration of that idea. As a fluid moves through a narrow passage, it has to speed up in order to ensure a constant... Read More

5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Visible images (above) showed a rapidly intensifying Hurricane Force Low (surface analyses) that was approaching Atlantic Canada on 04 November 2025.Two examples of Metop ASCAT surface scatterometer winds having speed values greater than Category 1 hurricane intensity are shown below. 5-minute GOES-19 Water Vapor images (below) depicted a mid-tropospheric... Read More

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Visible and Infrared images (above) showed Category 5 Hurricane Melissa as it made landfall along the far southwest coast of Jamaica around 1700 UTC on 28 October 2025. Low-altitude mesovortices were evident within the eye — and GLM Flash Points revealed abundant lightning activity within the inner... Read More