The combination of strong winds and low relative humidity prompted the SPC to forecast elevated to critical fire weather potential across parts of the Upper Midwest on 29 April 2018. A Mesoscale Domain Sector was positioned over the region, providing data at 1-minute intervals — and “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) images (above) revealed... Read More
Explosions at an oil refinery in Superior WI on 26 April 2018 (news link) produced a black plume of smoke visible in the GOES-16 “Red Visible” Band, the highest resolution (0.5 km at nadir) band on GOES-16. The plume is first visible at about 1717 UTC, and it then streams southeastward over... Read More
Sea Surface Temperatures (SSTs) produced from the Advanced Clear-Sky Processor for Oceans (ACSPO) are now being created in real time at the National Weather Service Forecast Office on Guam (where the National Weather Service day begins). The algorithm is applied to data broadcast from polar orbiter satellites and received at the Direct Broadcast antenna sited at the forecast office. (Link to CSPP ACSPO Algorithm) Because there are... Read More
It looks like someone was having fun flying in circles. Check out the contrails southwest of San Diego captured by #GOES16 yesterday afternoon. You can even see its shadow on the low clouds early in the animation. pic.twitter.com/PvUr2jNack — NWS San Diego (@NWSSanDiego) April 24, 2018 As pointed out by NWS... Read More
