GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) include plots of GOES-16 Derived Motion Winds (DMW) within the 775-900 hPa and the 900 hPa-Surface layers — which displayed a rapidly-intensifying area of low pressure (surface analyses) over the West Atlantic Ocean (south of Nova Scotia, Canada) on 12 December 2022. Note the area of haziness just... Read More

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) True Color RGB images from the CSPP GeoSphere site (above) showed blowing dust (shades of tan) along and in the wake of a strong cold front that was moving southward across the High Plains on 02 December 2022.A Suomi-NPP VIIRS True Color RGB image valid at 1905... Read More

The animation of GOES-17 visible imagery (Band 2, 0.64 µm), above, (created at the CSPP Geosphere site) shows the characteristic signal of Sun Glint — the moving bright region. Sun glint (also discussed on this blog here, here, here, here and — for moonglint: here!) occurs when radiation from the Sun reflects... Read More

As an anomalously-strong upper-tropospheric jet streak was moving across the Mid-Atlantic region on 20 November 2022, GOES-16 (GOES-East) Upper-level Water Vapor (6.2 µm) images (above) displayed numerous 6.2 µm Derived Motion Wind (DMW) vectors having speeds of 190 knots and higher — with the jet streak axis passing just to the north of the Wallops,... Read More