A Landsat-8 False Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) image as viewed using RealEarth (above) showed areas of flooding (water = darker shades of blue) along portions of the Innoko River and the Iditarod River in Southwest Alaska on 05 May 2020. Much of southwestern Alaska had received above-average winter season snowfall —... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) showed a long-lived Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) or derecho that produced a swath of large hail and damaging winds (SPC Storm Reports | NWS Nashville) from eastern Kansas to central Tennessee, northern Mississippi and northern Alabama on 03 May 2020.The corresponding GOES-16 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm)... Read More
GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) showed widespread boundary layer wave clouds across much of Kansas and far eastern Colorado on 02 May 2020. Although there was a temporary outage of pilot report data from 18-19 UTC, there was one pilot report of light turbulence over Hays, Kansas (KHYS) at an... Read More
GOES-16 (GOES-East) CIMSS Natural Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB), Fire Temperature RGB and Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) images (above) revealed a small cluster of fires in southeastern North Dakota, as well as isolated fires in far western Minnesota and far northeastern South Dakota on 01 May 2020. Strong winds — gusting over 30 mph at some locations... Read More
