The GOES-17 Loop Heat Pipe issue means that certain infrared bands lose data integrity at certain times, times that vary over the course of the year. Late February is a time of year when the impacts on data are very noticeable (This figure — from this blog post — shows other times of... Read More
A potent Atmospheric River is affecting the California Coast on 14 February 2019. The morphed microwave imagery, above (from this site), shows rich moisture from deep in the tropics moving onto the southern California and northwest Mexican coasts. The animation below shows the Layered Precipitable water — also a product derived... Read More
GOES-16 (GOES-East) Low-level Water Vapor (7.3 µm) images, with and without a map overlay (above), revealed that a portion of the western coastline of Florida around and north of Tampa (KTBW) could be seen on the Water Vapor imagery. Although more subtle, the St. Johns River south of Jacksonville (KJAX) and... Read More
(The Experimental GOES-17 Data Fusion link is here).GOES-17 is now operational as GOES-West at 137.2º W Longitude, as noted here and elsewhere. However, Loop Heat Pipe (LHP) problems persist (as noted here and here and here), with the effect varying seasonally. Because of the Loop Heat Pipe malfunction, the Advanced... Read More
