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Archive: Wed Sep 2017

Hurricane Irma over the British Virgin Islands

 Suomi NPP overflew Irma as the storm moved through the British Virgin Islands. The toggle above shows the 0.64 µm Visible Image of the storm at that time, with and without annotations.  An infrared view from VIIRS, at 11.45 µm is shown below.(Imagery courtesy Will Straka, CIMSS) ... Read More

Widespread Smoke in the Pacific Northwest

GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational and are undergoing testingDry weather over the Pacific Northwest (and over Idaho and Montana) has created an ideal environment lately for wildfires, and much of the region is shrouded in smoke from those fires as shown in the Suomi NPP True... Read More