5-minute GOES-16 {GOES-East) True Color RGB images created using Geo2Grid (below) showed widespread blowing dust (shades of tan) and wildfire smoke plumes (brighter shades of white) across much of the central/southern Plains on 12 April 2022. Wind speeds were anomalously strong behind a dryline within the warm sector of an anomalously-deep surface low, which... Read More

Typhoon Malakas in the western Pacific is shown above in Himawari-8 infrared imagery between Guam and the Philippines. It is a well-developed storm (albeit asymmetric) with an obvious eye. Level 2 Rain Rate from Himawari-8 is also shown; the heaviest precipitation is diagnosed to the southeast of the eye, and... Read More