1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) images (above) showed the thick smoke and hot thermal signature of the Woolsey Fire in southern California on 09 November 2018. On this day it exhibited extreme fire behavior, with the large thermal anomaly or fire “hot spot” (red enhancement) moving rapidly... Read More

NWS Duluth requested a GOES-16 (GOES-East) Mesoscale Domain Sector to monitor the potential for lake-enhanced snowfall along the south shore of Lake Superior on 09 November 2018 — and 1-minute “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) showed the cyclonic flow around abroad area of low pressure over the Great Lakes (surface analyses), along with the formation of... Read More