5-minute CONUS sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) True Color RGB images from the CSPP GeoSphere site (above) showed the northward transport of smoke from the 35,000-acre Great Lake Fire in eastern North Carolina on 21 April 2023.In a closer view using 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 True Color RGB images (below), intermittent brighter white pyrocumulus clouds were... Read More

The mp4 animation above shows the development of Tropical Storm Sanvu out of the Monsoon Trough in the western Pacific ocean on 19-20 April 2023. The ‘Pacific Tropical Airmass RGB’ used in the animation is described in this blog post, and it gives more information about cloud-top features compared to the Airmass RGB... Read More