GOES-16 (GOES-East) True Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images from the AOS site (above) revealed the arrival of a dense high-altitude smoke plume from the north, which cast a late-day shadow onto the top of a more aged layer of lower-altitude smoke over the Upper Midwest on 30 May 2019. These smoke layers were... Read More

GOES-17 (GOES-West) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) revealed the mesoscale cyclonic circulations of actinoform clouds (or “actinae“) within the marine boundary layer stratocumulus cloud field over the central Pacific Ocean on 30 May 2019.This type of cloud feature was originally identified in TIROS-V imagery over the Pacific Ocean in 1962 (below),... Read More