1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) True Color RGB images created using Geo2Grid (above) showed a distinct smoke plume associated with the Buck Fire in North Texas on 28 October 2021. The fire spread rapidly toward the southeast, driven by strong northwesterly winds gusting in excess of 40 knots. Note that the brighter white smoke plume was... Read More

Sometimes space weather can be just as noteworthy as weather on Earth. There was an X1 solar flare on October 28, 2021, at 10:35AM CDT (15:35Z) detected by the GOES Solar Ultraviolet Imager (SUVI). The GOES-16 and 17 satellites each house the SUVI, which is an extreme ultraviolet telescope that... Read More