GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) showed narrow ribbons of fog over the northwestern portion of Lake Superior on 08 July 2019. A person attempting to navigate from Grand Portage, Minnesota — located northeast of Grand Marais Airport, identifier KCKC — to Isle Royale became lost in the fog and eventually... Read More
GOES-16 (GOES-East) True Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images from the AOS site (above) showed the signature of dense smoke from Canadian wildfires that was being transported southward across parts of the Upper Midwest on 06 July 2019. While much of the smoke remained aloft, some of it was reaching the surface... Read More
GOES-16 (GOES-East) Near-Infrared “Snow/Ice” (1.61 µm), Near-Infrared “Cloud Particle Size” (2.24 µm) and Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) images (above) revealed nighttime thermal signatures of a fire at a Jim Beam bourbon warehouse in Versailles, Kentucky on 03 July 2019. The fire reportedly began to burn around 0330 UTC (11:30 PM... Read More
A total solar eclipse occurred across the southern Pacific Ocean and parts of South America on 02 July 2019 — GOES-17 (GOES-West) “stretched” True Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images (above) showed the eastward progression of the eclipse shadow.On the view from GOES-16 (GOES-East), the eclipse shadow can be seen beginning to move across... Read More
