The CIMSS CSPP-Powered GeoSphere site is now available. This site allows quick access to GOES-16 imagery via Cloud-friendly, flexible (and configurable) software. Data are accessed from the GOES Re-Broadcast (GRB) downloaded via antenna at CIMSS/SSEC. Significant effort was made to reduce latency. For example, GOES-16 Mesoscale Sectors load within about a... Read More
GOES-16 (GOES-East) Nighttime Microphysics RGB, Night Fog BTD (10.3-3.9 µm) and Cloud Thickness product (above) showed an arc of relatively thin fog across northern South Carolina, eastern North Carolina and southeastern Virginia — which was becoming thicker/deeper in time during the hours leading up to sunrise on 13 January 2021. In areas where the Cloud Thickness increased to 400... Read More
GOES-16 (GOES-East) Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 µm) images (above) showed widespread precipitation that was developing across the southern High Plains and Lower Mississippi Valley on 10 January 2021. A closed middle-tropospheric low was providing forcing for ascent as it moved eastward across the region — and its cyclonic circulation was evident in the... Read More
The Storm Prediction Center in Norman issued a Slight Risk (click for map, from here) of severe weather over portions of southeast TX on 6 January 2021. The Day Cloud Phase Distinction RGB, shown above (click the image to animate) shows a developing line of convection stretching through the SLGT RSK area... Read More
