A toggle between NOAA-20 VIIRS True Color and False Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images (above) showed a patch of snow cover that remained across parts of northwestern Oklahoma, the Oklahoma Panhandle and southwestern Kansas on 08 December 2020. This was residual snow cover from a winter storm that occurred 6 days earlier (on... Read More
GOES-16 (GOES-East) Nighttime Microphysics Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images (above) showed the signature of a power plant plume moving southeastward across West Virginia after sunset on 07 December 2020. The likely source of this plume was the Gavin Power Plant, located about 10 miles north-northeast of Gallipolis, Ohio. The power plant exhaust plume was composed of water... Read More
GOES-17 (GOES-West) Low-level (7.3 µm), Mid-level (6.9 µm) and Upper-level (6.2 µm) Water Vapor images (above) revealed cold thermal signatures (brighter shades of white) associated with the highest-elevation portions of the Alaska Range on 05 December 2020. Note the slight northward shift (16-20 km, or 10-12 miles) in the apparent location of Denali... Read More
As discussed on the Satellite Liaison Blog, wildfires driven by strong Santa Ana winds developed after sunset on 02 December — and 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-17 (GOES-West) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) images (above) displayed the thermal anomalies and smoke plumes associated with larger fires that persisted into the subsequent daytime hours on 03 December 2020.GOES-17... Read More
