GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational and are undergoing testingOvernight Satellite imagery from GOES-16, above, shows an increase in the size and convective activity with then-Tropical Storm Harvey. Harvey is forecast to make landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast (See the National Hurricane Center website for further details), and conditions... Read More
GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational and are undergoing testingHurricane Gert, a Category-1 storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale, is over the open Atlantic Ocean east of Cape Hatteras. It is close enough to the USA, however, that it is within GOES-16’s CONUS domain where 5-minute sampling is... Read More
GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational and are undergoing testingTropical Storm Emily has formed in the eastern Gulf of Mexico on 31 July 2017, just to the west of Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida. Its presence is possibly related to the surface front that has sagged south into Florida over the... Read More
* GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational and are undergoing testing *On 17 July Tropical Storm Don became the 4th named storm of the 2017 North Atlantic Basin season. The satellite presentation improved somewhat on 18 July, with GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (above)... Read More
