A sequence of 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) images from all 16 ABI spectral bands along with Rocket Plume RGB images (above) displayed signatures of the launch of EUMETSAT MTG-I1 from the Guiana Space Centre near Kourou, French Guyana (synoptic station identifier 814030) on 13 December 2022. The Ariane-5 rocket booster’s hot thermal... Read More

As noted in this blog post, version 1.1 of geo2grid (available here!) includes support for reading AHI, AMI and AGRI data (in addition to ABI data) from JMA‘s Himawari-8 (and -9), KMA‘s GEOKOMPSAT-2 and CMA‘s FY4A (and FY4B), respectively. These multispectral imagers are similar — but not identical — as shown at the WMO OSCAR websites... Read More

GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) include plots of GOES-16 Derived Motion Winds (DMW) within the 775-900 hPa and the 900 hPa-Surface layers — which displayed a rapidly-intensifying area of low pressure (surface analyses) over the West Atlantic Ocean (south of Nova Scotia, Canada) on 12 December 2022. Note the area of haziness just... Read More

[Added, 14 December: geo2grid v 1.1 is now available at this link!] The true color animation toggle above, over Taiwan, shows True-Color imagery over Taiwan shortly after 0000 UTC on 8 December using FY4A and Himawari-9 data; readers for data from those satellites are included in version 1.1 of geo2grid. Data from Himawari-9 (HSD level 1b files) are... Read More