Eclipse season for GOES-16 occurs around the Equinoxes when the satellite can enters the Earth’s shadow. Long ago (before GOES-12), Eclipse Season meant the satellite lost power because the solar array that powers the satellite was in a shadow. GOES-16 has batteries that allow it to function when solar power... Read More
An outbreak of severe weather occurred across parts of the Mid-South, Ohio Valley and mid Mississippi Valley on 03 April 2018. A GOES-16 Mesoscale Sector provided images at 1-minute intervals — “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (below) include plots of SPC storm reports.Looking farther to the southwest over parts... Read More
A cold front moving southward along the western Great Plains showed a distinct signature in GOES-16 Water Vapor Imagery. The hourly animation above, with surface observations, shows the front in the Low-Level Water Vapor passing over stations where winds shift from westerly and southwesterly to strong northerly. The feature is far... Read More
Some remnant signatures of Winter could be seen on 01 April 2018 — the first were seen on GOES-16 (GOES-East) GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and Near-Infrared “Snow/Ice (1.61 µm) over North Dakota and South Dakota, in the form of snow cover and snow/ice on parts of the Missouri River (above). With the high... Read More
