https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2020/12/HIMAWARI-8_AHI_B13_20201214_20201215anim.mp4 Himawari-8 Clean Window Infrared (10.41 µm) imagery, 0000 UTC 14 December to 0000 UTC 16 December 2020 (Click to animate) Himawari-8 Clean Window Infrared (10.41 µm) imagery (courtesy the Japanese Meteorological Agency, JMA) from 14-15 December 2020 (click here for an animated gif) show the development of a... Read More

As was seen 2 days earlier, a plume of blowing dust developed across the Texas Panhandle in the wake of a cold frontal passage, and was transported southeastward across western Texas on 15 December 2020 — GOES-16 (GOES-East) Dust RGB images (above) displayed signatures of this airborne dust (brighter shades of pink).GOES-16 True Color RGB images created using Geo2Grid (below) showed the tan-colored... Read More

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images (above) showed the passage of a total solar eclipse shadow across parts of Chile and Argentina, along with the land surface thermal response due to the interruption of incoming solar radiation. In areas... Read More

https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2020/12/Himaw08G17Stereo_ABI_RadF_064_20201213_2100_to_20201214_0550_YasaStereoanim.mp4 GOES-17 (left) and Himawari-8 (right) visible (0.64 µm) imagery over Fiji, 2100 UTC on 13 December through 0500 UTC on 14 December (Click to animate)An active area of tropical weather has spawned two tropical cyclones that bracketed the islands of Fiji early on 14 December. Himawari-8 (data courtesy... Read More