As a nocturnal Mesoscale Convective System dissipated over North Texas around sunrise on 23 June 2020, 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) revealed a Mesoscale Convective Vortex (MCV) — which then aided the development of new thunderstorms across northeast Texas during the subsequent afternoon and evening hours.SPC Mesoscale Analysis products at 13 UTC and 16... Read More
The major Saharan Air Layer dust outbreak (previously discussed here and here) continued its westward progression — and on 21 June 2020, GOES-16 (GOES-East) Split Window Difference (10.3 µm – 12.3 µm) and Dust RGB images (above) showed signatures of the dust (shades of tan to light brown in Split Window Difference, and shades of... Read More
The shadow of a rare June Solstice annular solar eclipse moved across parts of Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and southern Asia on 21 June 2020. In Asia, the path of the shadow of totality was captured on Himawari-8 True Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images created using Geo2Grid (above).The shadow was also evident in FY-2G Full Disk... Read More
VIIRS Infrared Window (11.45 µm) images from NOAA-20 and Suomi NPP as viewed using RealEarth (above) showed thunderstorms beginning to increase in areal coverage north of and in the vicinity of American Samoa on 20 June 2020, as a surface trough north of the islands began to move southward.To monitor the... Read More
