GOES-16 Clean Window imagery from 1800 UTC on 7 May 2020, above, suggests a frontal zone from the central Atlantic southwestward through the Florida Straits. What products can be used to diagnose the moisture differences between the dry airmass over the southeast United States/Florida and the far moister airmass over... Read More
A cold front with ample moisture and instability ahead of it spawned numerous strong storms in the Southeast U.S. yesterday; particularly one long-lived supercell in South Carolina. A convolutional neural network model (CNN) was deployed in realtime on the 1-min GOES-16 mesoscale sector imagery. The model produces an “Intense Convection... Read More
Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) data from Suomi NPP and NOAA-20 can be used to create accurate sea-surface temperature (SST) fields using the Advanced Clear-Sky Processor for Ocean (ACSPO) algorithms. The toggle above shows ACSPO SSTs over the Gulf of Maine from Suomi NPP (at 0620 UTC) and from NOAA-20 (at 0710 UTC) — orbital paths can be found here. Waters... Read More
GOES-16 (GOES-East) Dust Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images (above) showed a pink plume of blowing dust – created by northwesterly surface winds gusting as high as 49 knots or 56 mph – moving over parts of Interstates 29, 35 and 70 in Nebraska, Iowa and Missouri on 05 May 2020. The visibility briefly dropped... Read More
