NOAA-20’s early afternoon pass over Lake Erie on 2 December 2020 produced a stunner of an image.  Snow surrounds the open lake, a result of the first widespread storm of the season over the eastern Great Lakes.This image was created using Polar2Grid and Direct Broadcast data at the UW-Madison CIMSS. ... Read More

A very large iceberg broke off the Larsen-C Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula in July 2017 (recall this CIMSS Satellite Blog post, or this more recent post). While NOAA’s GOES-16 ABI visible sensors may not be ideal, they can monitor the iceberg’s location if the cloud cover is not too thick, as shown in the... Read More