The Slider above compares the Day Cloud Phase Distinction RGB over the central United States with the derived Land Surface Temperature (LST), an hourly Level-2 product. Two snow bands over the central United States are a characteristic bright green in the RGB because there are minimal contributions there in the red and blue.... Read More
Very cold air over the Great Lakes on 17 February helped lead to the development of one long Lake-Effect Snow (LES) band that stretched from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan east-southeastward to Lake Huron then over the Bruce Peninsula and into eastern Lake Ontario and on to the Tug Hill... Read More
GOES-18 infrared imagery, above, shows a cyclonic circulation over the northeastern Gulf of Alaska. Shower development is suggested by the evolution of brightness temperatures changing from cyan to blue to green (showing cooling); showers then dissipate as the brightness temperatures warm. Do you think these are showers of rain or... Read More
10-minute Full Disk scan True Color RGB images from GOES-18 (GOES-West), GOES-17, GOES-19 (Preliminary/Non-operational) and GOES-16 (GOES-East) created using Geo2Grid (above) showed the slow drift of nearshore ice and the more rapid motion of lake effect clouds across southern Lake Michigan on 18th February 2025.The respective satellite locations over the Equator at... Read More
