A weak line of showers moved through southern Wisconsin late in the afternoon of 10 June 2022, as depicted in the 2001 UTC toggle above of NEXRAD Composite Reflectivity and GOES-16 Day Cloud Phase Distinction RGB. What satellite-based products could be used to anticipate that line?NOAA-20 orbits over the Midwestern... Read More

The second week of the Hazardous Weather Testbed (here is the blog site) ran 6-10 June 2022, and this blog post will discuss one or two of the events that happened this week. I was away from the Testbed on the first two days, and day #4 was not an active day for severe... Read More

Even though GOES-18 is currently preliminary, non-operational, ABI 16-panels are being generated for both the Full Disk and “PACUS” (Pacific US) sectors. GOES-18 arrived near the GOES-West position to continue post-launch checkout on June 6, 2022 and the ABI was started scanning early (UTC time) on June 7. To access the images, select “GOES-18”, choose a... Read More

* GOES-18 images shown in this blog post are preliminary and non-operational *Following its initial Post-Launch Test (PLT) period at 89.5°W longitude, GOES-18 reached a near-operational PLT position over the Pacific Ocean at 136.8°W longitude — and began transmitting images again at 0120 UTC on 07 June 2022. Although the first... Read More