The Falcon 9 rocket that was launched on 4 March did not achieve orbit and re-entered the atmosphere on 26 March at just before 0400 UTC (Correction: Falcon 9 achieved orbit. What did not occur as planned was the 2nd stage de-orbit burn The low orbit of the 2nd stage... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images (below) include time-matched plots of SPC Storm Reports that were produced by a number of supercell thunderstorms that developed and moved across the Deep South and Mid-South on 25 March 2021. The highest concentration of tornadoes occurred in Alabama, including one that was responsible for multiple fatalities... Read More
EUMETSAT Meteosat-11 Ash Height retrievals from the NOAA/CIMSS Volcanic Cloud Monitoring site (above) showed that an eruption of Mount Etna in Sicily, Italy on 24 March 2021 produced an ash cloud which rose to heights of 7-8 km (darker shade of green).The corresponding Meteosat-11 Ash Loading images are shown below — ash loading... Read More
GOES-16 (GOES-East) nighttime Cloud Thickness and daytime “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) displayed a narrow band of marine stratus/fog that was moving southward along the East Coast of the US on 23 March 2021. Plots of Ceiling and Visibility showed that some sites along the coasts of New York, New... Read More
