GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) showed widespread ice coverage in Lake Erie on 06 February 2022. Increasing southerly/southwesterly winds were helping to open numerous ice leads, resulting in the north/northeastward drift of large ice floes across much of the eastern 3/4 of the lake. A few large ice leads even... Read More
GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and Day Cloud Phase Distinction RGB images (above) displayed actinoform clouds (reference) near Bermuda on 05 February 2022. The light shades of green exhibited by the narrow cloud bands within the actinoform features suggested that they were beginning to glaciate — and as one of those cloud bands (associated... Read More
US Space Force EWS-G1 — formerly GOES-13 — Visible (0.63 µm) and Infrared Window (10.7 µm) images (above) showed Cyclone Batsirai making landfall as a Category 3 storm along the eastern coast of Madagascar on 05 February 2022.Suomi-NPP VIIRS True Color RGB and Infrared Window (11.45 µm) images viewed using... Read More
In a sequence of GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm), Near-Infrared “Snow/Ice” (1.61 µm) and Day Snow-Fog RGB images (above), areas that received a significant accretion of ice — via sleet and/or freezing rain/drizzle from a significant winter storm — appeared as darker shades of gray to black in the 1.61 µm... Read More
