1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (above) showed Category 1 Hurricane Beatriz just off the west coast of Mexico (near Ixtapa, station identifier MMZH) as a cloud-filled eye was becoming more apparent.A DMSP-17 Microwave (85 GHz) image at 1322 UTC (below) from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site indicated... Read More
A long-lived mesoscale convective system (MCS) accompanied by strong winds at its leading edge, i.e., a Derecho, moved through the central US on 29 June 2023. The animation above shows GOES-16 Clean Window Infrared (10.3 µm) imagery at 15-minute intervals from 0100 UTC through 19 UTC on 29 June 2023.... Read More
RCM1 overflew Hurricane Adrian (the 2nd latest-forming first tropical system of the eastern Pacific since the start of the satellite record) at 1300 UTC on 29 June 2023, as shown above. SAR winds derived from satellite data show a closed ring of 35- to 40-knot winds surrounding the eye. Adrian’s center at 15.9oN, 110oW in the 1300 UTC... Read More
GOES-18 (GOES-West) Day Land Cloud Fire RGB, Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm), “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images along with the Fire Power derived product (a component of the GOES Fire Detection and Characterization Algorithm FDCA) (above) showed a wildfire southeast of Dease Lake (CWDL) in northern British Columbia that produced a pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) cloud late in the day... Read More
