On 25 January 2019 a GOES-16 (GOES-East) Mesoscale Domain Sector was positioned over Argentina in support of the RELAMPAGO-CACTI field experiment, providing imagery at 1-minute intervals. “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) showed thunderstorms that developed and moved northward over the Córdoba (SACO) area — surface observations there (plot | list) showed a sharp... Read More

JMA Himawari-8 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm), Shortwave Infrared (3.7 µm) and Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (above) showed the development of a pyroCumulonimbus (pyroCb) cloud from a bushfire that was burning in the eucalypt forests of eastern Victoria, Australia on 25 January 2019. A rapid-scan “Target” sector was positioned over... Read More