GOES-16 (GOES-East) Fire Tempera ture RGB images (above) showed the rapid north-northwestward spread of a wind-driven grassland fire across Sioux County in far southern North Dakota during the early afternoon hours on 21 August 2022. South-southeasterly winds were gusting to 17-18 knots (19-21 mph) at surrounding METAR sites during that time period.The GOES-16 Fire Temperature... Read More
The Suomi NPP satellite experienced an anomaly at ~1630 UTC on 26 July that caused all instruments to go into ‘safe mode’. NOAA Engineers have successfully re-started the instruments. The Direct Broadcast signal resumed on 11 August, and NOAA/NESDIS proclaimed VIIRS Sensor Data Record (SDR) data operational as of 18... Read More
GOES-16 (GOES-East) True Color RGB and Nighttime Microphysics RGB images from the CSPP GeoSphere site (above) showed an arc of blowing dust (along with multiple wildfire smoke plumes) moving northward across northern Argentina — behind a cold front — on 15 August 2022.Embedded within the broad arc of blowing dust were dense plumes... Read More
GOES-18 (GOES-West) True Color RGB images viewed using CSPP GeoSphere (above) showed the motion of sea ice filaments that had moved southward through the Bering Strait and into the northwestern Bering Sea (just off the coast of Chokotka Okrug, Russia) on 14 August 2022. A sequence of 375-meter resolution VIIRS False Color RGB... Read More
