5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Nighttime Microphysics RGB + daytime True Color RGB images from the CSPP GeoSphere site (above) showed numerous power plant plumes (shades of red) embedded within a supercooled water droplet c loud layer (shades of yellow) that covered much of Wisconsin on 02 December 2025.The GOES-19 Cloud Top Phase derived product (below) confirmed... Read More
A EUMETSAT Meteosat-10 False Color RGB product from the NOAA/CIMSS Volcanic Cloud Monitoring site (above) showed the signature of a large volcanic cloud following the explosive eruption of Hayli Gubbi in Ethiopia, which began around 0830 UTC on 23 November 2025. Since this False Color RGB product uses the 8.7 µm spectral band (which... Read More
Loading map … let cimssInteractiveMapBaseUrl = 'https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/wp-content/themes/cimss'; To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the GOES-A launch (GOES-A became GOES-1 on reaching geostationary orbit), this blog post contains one or two satellite animations (or images) for each of the 50 states. More on GOES-1 through GOES-19.There were experimental geostationary imagers (ATS and SMS) that preceded the first GOES.... Read More
10-minute Full Disk scan GOES-18 (GOES-West) Mid-level Water Vapor images (above) showed the remnants of Typhoon Halong (North Pacific surface analyses) as it entered the Bering Sea late in the day on 11 October, re-intensified to a Hurricane Force low pressure (Alaska surface analyses) then eventually moved inland across far western and northwestern Alaska later in... Read More
