A George Strait concert at an outdoor stadium (Nissan Stadium) in Nashville, Tennessee was cancelled by a forced evacuation — due to approaching thunderstorms — just before 10 PM local time on 29 July 2023 (0300 UTC on 30 July). GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (above) showed (1) the dissipation... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) Day Land Cloud Fire RGB, Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm), “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) and Cloud Top Temperature derived product images (above) showed that the Spoon Fire in in east-central Arizona produced a pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) cloud late in the day on 27 July 2023. Cloud-top 10.3 µm brightness temperatures reached the -40ºC pyroCb threshold (shades of blue) at 0043 UTC... Read More
Typhoon Doksuri moved between the Philippines and Taiwan late on 26 July 2023 as it approached mainland China. Both Sentinel-1A and RCM-3 overflew the storm shortly after 2200 UTC on 26 July, and those two scenes are shown above in concert with a Band 13 Himawari-9 Clean Window infrared (10.4... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) showed the development of thunderstorms across much of the eastern portion of Interior Alaska on 24 July 2023. The large satellite viewing angle — which is 73.5 degrees for Fairbanks (station identifier PAFA) — provided an oblique perspective that nicely displayed the vertical buildup... Read More
