Lake Effect Snow off Pyramid Lake will affect the morning commute for much of Reno-Sparks. Accumulations up 3 inches with locally heavier amount through noon today. Slow down when in the band. #LakeEffect pic.twitter.com/ul2RJRb46F — NWS Reno (@NWSReno) February 21, 2019 GOES-17 (GOES-West) “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (above) showed an... Read More
VIIRS Day/Night Band (0.7 µm) and Infrared Window (11.45 µm) images from NOAA-20 at 1502 UTC (above) and from Suomi NPP at 1552 UTC (below) showed Category 2 Typhoon Wutip in the West Pacific Ocean (southeast of Guam) on 21 February 2019. With Moon in the Waning Gibbous phase (at... Read More
GOES-17 is typically operational using Mode 3 Scanning, in which mode Full Disk images are acquired every 15 minutes (in addition to a PACUS sector every 5 minutes and two mesoscale sectors every minute). NOAA/NESDIS plans a transition to operational Mode 6 scanning at some point in Spring, and testing... Read More
