1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-17 (GOES-West) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) revealed a bright reflection of sunlight off the large arrays of solar panels at Topaz Solar Farm in southern California (Google maps) — located between Black Mountain and California Valley — on 12 June 2019. Of particular interest are the vertical “stripes” emanating from... Read More

A comparison of Water Vapor images from GOES-17 (GOES-West) and GOES-15 Water Vapor images (above) showed the signature of an anomalously-deep closed low that was moving southeastward over the Beaufort Sea north of Alaska during the 11 June – 12 June 2019 period. The images are shown in the native... Read More