1-minute SRSO-R GOES-14 Visible (0.63 µm) images (above; also available as a 265 Mbyte animated GIF) showed the development of severe thunderstorms which produced large hail and damaging winds (SPC storm reports) in southeastern North Dakota, northeastern South Dakota and far western Minnesota on 10 August 2016. SPC noted a region of enhanced... Read More
GOES-14 is in SRSO-R mode from today through 25 August, providing 1-minute imagery over western portions of the United States. The geographic footprint for 9 August 2016 is shown above (realtime images), and the 15-minute animation contains 13 images, versus the normal 2 that GOES-East or GOES-West would provide during routine scanning. This one-minute imagery... Read More
Hurricane Earl made landfall around 0600 UTC on 4 August in Belize. The hourly animation from GOES-14, above, shows a rapid warming of the coldest cloud tops over Earl after landfall, as commonly happens. GOES-14 is out of storage to support SRSO-R Operations beginning Tuesday August 9.The GOES-14 image at landfall shows coldest cloud tops on the north side of the storm. A timely Metop-A overpass (times... Read More
GOES-14 has again been reactivated, and is distributing data from its location over the Equator at 105 W. GOES-14 will be entering SRSO-R mode next week, starting on 9 August (link) and continuing through 26 August.Short animations of GOES-14 Visible (0.63 um) and Infrared Window (10.7 um) imagery are shown... Read More
