The GOES-16 (GOES-East) Saharan Air Layer (SAL) infrared Split Window (12.3 µm – 10.3 µm) product (above) showed a large outbreak of SAL dust that emerged from the northwest coast of Africa on 30 July 2018, eventually moving over the Lesser Antilles and Puerto Rico late in the day on 03 August.During daylight hours,... Read More

* GOES-17 images shown here are preliminary and non-operational *GOES-15 (GOES-West), GOES-17 and GOES-16 (GOES-East) Visible images (above) showed the development of thunderstorms which produced hail and damaging winds (SPC storm reports) in the Phoenix, Arizona area on 02 August 2018. The images are displayed in the native projection of each satellite (no re-mapping).... Read More

Animations of GOES-16 (GOES-East) Low-level (7.3 µm), Mid-level (6.9 µm) and Upper-level (6.2 µm) Water Vapor images (above) showed features moving eastward across Nunavut in northern Canada on 01 August 2018. These images covered the far northern portion of the GOES-16 Full Disk view in AWIPS, and depicted frontal wave disturbances within the polar jet stream... Read More