Shown above (click image to play animation; also available as an MP4 movie file) is a 4-panel comparison of GOES-15 (GOES-West, left panels) and GOES-13 (GOES-East, right panels) 0.63 µm visible channel images (top) and 3.9 µm shortwave IR images (bottom) which showed the development of the the long smoke plume and... Read More