GOES-17 ABI Imagery on 6 February suggests the presence of a cold front over the Pacific Ocean northeast of Hawaii. The Clean Window imagery shows a flat region between 30º N and 40º N around 140º W. The Night Fog Brightness temperature difference shows a signal — cyan — in... Read More

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-17 (GOES-West) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and Near-Infrared “Cirrus” (1.37 µm) images (above) displayed widespread “transverse banding” — elongated cirrus elements oriented perpendicular to the ambient jet stream flow — that was migrating southward across California on 04 February 2020. This satellite signature is an indicator of potential turbulence, which in this... Read More

GOES-16 (GOES-East) Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 µm) images (above) showed numerous orographic waves over eastern Arizona and western New Mexico on 03 February 2020. There were several high-altitude pilot reports of turbulence across that region, including severe turbulence associated with mountain waves at 43,000 feet and at 39,000 feet (below). The... Read More

2.5-miute Rapid Scan JMA Himawari-8 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) and Infrared Window (10.4 µm) images (above) showed the formation of 2 small, fairly short-lived pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) clouds spawned by large, hot bushfires in southern New South Wales, Australia on 01 February 2020. The pyroCb clouds developed... Read More