Overlapping 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sectors provided GOES-16 (GOES-East) images at 30-second intervals from all 16 ABI spectral bands (above), which displayed the northeast-moving warm thermal signature of a SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket booster as the Crew-5 Mission was launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 16:00:57 UTC on... Read More

JMA Himawari-8 Visible (0.64 µm) and Infrared Window (10.4 µm) images (above) showed the development of “island-effect” thunderstorms over Guam on 05 October 2022 — as mentioned in the NWS Guam Area Forecast Discussion, these storms produced 2-3 inches of rainfall over parts of western/central Guam (prompting the issuance of a Flood... Read More