With the total solar eclipse occurring over parts of the contiguous U.S. on April 8, 2024, there are many wondering what the cloud cover might be on that day. As anticipation builds, we decided to look at the past 28 years of GOES cloud products on April 8. This is not a forecast,... Read More
A selection of several GOES ABI loops during 2022 showcased the diverse range of features observed, which included volcanic ash plumes, hurricanes, convection, fog, smoke, fires, dust and ice. It’s very hard to choose just one event from every month of the year, but the goal here is to show a variety of phenomena and locations that NOAA‘s GOES... Read More
10-minute Full Disk GOES-16 (GOES-East) CIMSS Natural True Color RGB images created using Geo2Grid (above) showed the 2023 Annular Solar Eclipse shadow as it progressed southeastward from the Pacific Northwest to Brazil on 14 October 2023.GOES-16 Near-Infrared “Vegetation” (0.86 µm) images — in the native projection of the GOES-16 satellite (below) — provided another view of the eclipse... Read More
Due to the total solar eclipse over parts of the contiguous U.S. on April 8, 2024, there are many wondering what the cloud cover may be then. Q: Will it be cloudy over the path of the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024? A: We don’t know what the cloud cover will... Read More
