NOAA/NESDIS has modified the GOES-17 Mode 6 scanning schedule during times of increased data-outages related to the faulty Loop Heat Pipe (LHP) mechanism (Blog Post 1, 2, 3 on that subject;  see also here) on GOES-17.  (The OSPO Notification is here).  Between 0600 and 1200 UTC, Full Disk scans are... Read More

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images (above) showed thunderstorms that produced a variety of severe weather (SPC Storm Reports) across far southern Oklahoma on 22 April 2020. These discrete supercell storms developed along a cold front associated with a low pressure system moving across the region (surface analyses).GOES-16... Read More

GOES-16 Clean Window (10.3 µm) infrared imagery, above (click to animate) shows two regions of convection over the southern Plains, one moving through central/southern Oklahoma, one developing over the Texas Panhandle and moving east). A similar (but slightly later) animation of GOES-16 Low-Level water vapor infrared imagery (7.34 µm) is... Read More

GOES-17 (GOES-West) True Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images created using Geo2Grid (above) displayed the hazy signature of smoke which was being transported by the circulation of a midlatitude cyclone over the North Pacific Ocean on 21 April 2020.Since there was no distinct pink-colored dust signal seen in corresponding Dust RGB imagery... Read More