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Archive: Sat Jul 2018

Ferguson Fire in central California

* GOES-17 imagery shown here are preliminary and non-operational *A comparison of Visible images from GOES-15 (GOES-West), GOES-17 and GOES-16 (GOES-East)  on 14 July 2018 is shown above — in addition to thunderstorms over the high terrain of the Sierra Nevada, the development of a pyrocumulus cloud (with a small overshooting top)... Read More

Stereoscopic views of convection over Georgia, North Dakota and Mexico

GOES-17 imagery shown here are preliminary and non-operationalGOES-16 and GOES-17 visible imagery shows pseudo-stereoscopic imagery of developing convection on 13 July (over Georgia, click here for animated gif) and on 14 July (over North Dakota, including a cell that caused a tornado, below (animated gif), and Mexico, at bottom (animated gif)).To view these images in three dimensions, cross... Read More