GOES-16 infrared (above) and visible (below) imagery late in the afternoon of 5 July 2022 show the development of convection in between Baltimore and the District of Columbia. Tornadoes occurred in both Prince George County, just east and north of the District of Columbia, and over Anne Arundel county, just... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) include time-matched SPC Storm Reports — and showed a large Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) that moved southeastward across the Northern Plains on 05 July 2022. This MCS produced damaging straight-line winds as strong as 99 mph and hail as large as 4.00 inches in South Dakota — in fact, with... Read More
The Electra Fire near Jackson, California began on the afternoon of 2022-07-04 and can be observed with GOES-West (GOES-17) satellite imagery on RealEarth. The fire produced pyrocumulonimbus clouds, or pyroCb, which are storm clouds that start due to fire conditions.As of 2022-07-05 at 15:00 UTC, the... Read More
