1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-17 (GOES-West) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) showed a hazy plume of resuspended volcanic ash — from the 1912 eruption of Novarupta-Katmai — moving southeastward then eastward across the Shelikof Strait toward Kodiak Island in southern Alaska on 08 April 2022.The corresponding 1-minute GOES-17 Dust RGB images (below) displayed faint hues of... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) images from all 16 ABI spectral bands (above) displayed reflectance and/or thermal signatures of the SpaceX AX-1 Mission’s Falcon 9 rocket booster as it was launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Center on the morning of 08 April 2022.GOES-16 True Color RGB images from the CSPP GeoSphere... Read More
Thunderstorms were slowly but surely edging their way dangerously close to Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, FL, on April 2nd. The New York Yankees and Atlanta Braves had just completed a spring training game at the stadium, when two people were struck by lightning in one of the parking lots surrounding the stadium (they were... Read More
The tropical disturbance (formerly 95W) in the western Pacific south of Guam (discussed here) has strengthened and become the second western Pacific named storm of the year: Malakas. The storm is about halfway between the islands of Guam and New Guinea. The side-by-side imagery above, showing Himawari Band 3 and... Read More
