1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-17 (GOES-West) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm), Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 µm) and Air Mass Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images (above) showed a Storm Force low (surface analyses) developing in the Gulf of Alaska on 26 November 2020. As the storm intensified, trends of warming//drying on the Water Vapor images and brighter orange/red hues on the Air Mass RGB... Read More
EUMETSAT Meteosat-11 High Resolution Visible (0.8 µm) images (above) showed a westward-moving medicane which developed a fairly distinct eye shortly before making landfall along the eastern coast of Tunisia on 22 November 2020.A Suomi NPP VIIRS True Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) image displayed using RealEarth (below) provided a higher-resolution view of... Read More
A toggle between Suomi NPP VIIRS Infrared Window (11.45 µm) and Day/Night Band (0.7 µm) images at 0734 UTC (above) showed Tropical Storm Eta over the Gulf of Mexico (northwest of Cuba) on 10 November 2020. A large convective burst was seen southeast of the storm center, with concentric cloud-top... Read More
The CIMSS Direct Broadcast site is now routinely creating True-Color imagery over 6 different domains: The Great Lakes, and each of the 5 individual lakes: Superior, Huron, Michigan, Erie, Ontario (Click on each image to see the domain). File name examples are shown here. Suomi NPP and NOAA-20 are in similar orbits,... Read More
