1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) showed abroad arc of fog/stratus that persisted for much of the day across parts of eastern Virginia, Chesapeake Bay and the Delmarva Peninsula on 03 May 2022. Since this fog/stratus deck — which was on the cold side... Read More

Flooding has been detected by satellite along the Red River of the North for more than a week (see this blog post from late April). The image above shows the Flood Estimates (from this website). The image below (courtesy William Straka, CIMSS) shows a high-resolution downscaled Flood-water depth map derived from VIIRS imagery only.An interesting aspect of... Read More

RealEarth recently added Full Disk versions of IFR Probability and Low IFR Probability products for both GOES East (GOES-16) and GOES West (GOES-17). The animation above shows the simple way to display them: go to the RealEarth site (link), and enter ‘IFR Probability’ into the Search Tool, then drag the... Read More