Just one week after a deadly tornado outbreak across the Deep South, 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) with time-matched plots of SPC Storm Reports (above) showed the development of thunderstorms over Louisiana that crossed the Mississippi border and went on to produce a long-track tornado that produced... Read More
GOES-16 (GOES-East) True Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images created using Geo2Grid (above) revealed the complex motion of ice eddies in the Labrador Sea — within the Labrador Current off the coast of Labrador and Newfoundland, Canada — on 18 April 2020. According to the Canadian Ice Service, this First-year ice was of below-normal concentration.Thanks to Antonio Vecoli... Read More
GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and Day Cloud Phase Distinction Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images (above) revealed the rapid melting of parts of a broad swath of fresh snow cover (green in the RGB images) across the High Pains and Midwest on 17 April 2020. The snow melted quickly in central Nebraska (where storm totals were generally... Read More
Suomi NPP VIIRS Day/Night Band (0.7 µm), Near-Infrared (1.61 µm and 2.25 µm) and Shortwave Infrared (3.74 µm) images (above) showed visible and thermal signatures of a cluster of wildfires burning west of the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear power plant on 13 April 2020. The fire had reportedly burned about 8600... Read More
