JMA Himawari-8 Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) and Longwave Infrared Window (10.4 µm) images (above) showed a large bushfire (dark black to red pixels in the 3.9 µm imagery) in far southeastern Victoria, Australia — which quickly burned its way to the coast and produced 3 distinct pulses of pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb)... Read More
Full Disk JMA Himawari-8 True Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images (above) showed the shadow of an annular solar eclipse as it moved from west to east across the Indian Ocean, Indonesia and West Pacific Ocean on 26 December 2019.A closer view using images centered over Indonesia is shown below. The small eye of... Read More
A sequence of GOES-17 (GOES-West) Low-level (7.3 µm), Mid-level (6.9 µm), Upper-level (6.2 µm) Water Vapor and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images (above) showed a long-lived orographic banner cloud that formed in Southern California and extended about 200 miles to the northeast across southern Nevada on 22 December 2019. The banner cloud was formed by... Read More
GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) showed that most of Antarctica experienced 24 hours of full solar illumination during the Southern Hemisphere’s Summer Solstice on 21 December 2019. Through breaks in the cloud cover, a few bright areas of sun glint were also evident, moving from west to... Read More
