The season’s second named tropical cyclone in the Atlantic Basin has formed.  GOES-16 visible imagery, above (click to play an animated gif), shows Tropical Storm Beryl moving westward just north of 10 º N Latitude between 40 º and 50 º W Longitude.  The infrared imagery (10.3 µm), the Clean... Read More

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (above) showed the merger of two Mesoscale Convective Systems over North Dakota and South Dakota during the nighttime (pre-sunrise) hours on 04 July 2018. In addition to hail of 1.00-2.00 inches in diameter, these thunderstorms produced widespread damaging winds up to 95 mph in... Read More

GOES-16 (GOES-East) False Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images from the NOAA/CIMSS Volcanic Cloud Monitoring site (above) showed another eruption of the Sierra Negra volcano on the Galapagos, which began late in the day on 01 July 2018. Since the volcanic plume was rich in SO2, it exhibited a cyan appearance in the RGB imagery.As... Read More

The County Fire began burning in central California (northwest of Sacramento) around 2112 UTC or 2:12 pm local time on 30 June 2018 — GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) images (above) showed the smoke plume and thermal anomaly or “hot spot” (dark black to red pixels) of the fire... Read More