GOES-17 (GOES-West) Split Window (10.3-12.3 µm), Split Cloud Top Phase (11.2-8.4 µm) and “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) displayed a plume of blowing dust — whose source region was a dry lake bed along the California-Nevada border — which developed in advance of an approaching cold front (surface analyses) and moved northeastward across... Read More

Polar2Grid is Python-based software created at CIMSS/SSEC to process data from Polar Orbiting satellites into useful imagery (or into files that can be imported directly into the National Weather Service Advanced Weather Information Processing System (AWIPS) for display). (You can download it for a linux machine at this site.) This tutorial... Read More

GOES-16 (GOES-East) Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) images and the corresponding GOES-16 Fire Temperature product (above) showed the thermal signatures of widespread fires across the Great Plains (primarily in the Flint Hills of Kansas and Oklahoma) on 08 April 2019. Although fairly small and often relatively brief, some of these fires become quite hot —... Read More

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images with plots of GLM Groups (above) showed a large and electrically-active Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) which produced hail up to 4.5 inches in diameter (SPC storm reports) in eastern Texas on 06 Aprill 2019. These severe thunderstorms intensified generally along and north of a quasi-stationary frontal... Read More