GOES-18 (GOES-West) Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 µm) images (above) included plots of 1-hour Precipitation Accumulation — which showed rainfall associated with the northward spread of moisture across the Southwest US as Tropical Storm Hilary made landfall in Baja California on 20 August 2023. A similar animation with plots of 6-hour Precipitation Accumulation is... Read More

Polar2Grid is a powerful software package that enables a user to take Sensor Data Record (SDR) files from JPSS satellites (Suomi-NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21) and create high-quality georeferenced imagery that can be color-enhanced. (Polar2Grid also works with data from other polar orbiting satellites!) This blog post details how to scale an... Read More

Hurricane Hilary, off the coast of Mexico, is forecast to move northward into the southwestern United States, becoming a rare instance of a tropical cyclone affecting California. The 1200 UTC imagery on 18 August 2023 above shows a well-defined eye, with warm sea-surface temperatures (SSTs) in the Pacific Ocean along... Read More

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) + Fire Power derived product (a component of the GOES Fire Detection and Characterization Algorithm FDCA), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm), “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) and Cloud Top Temperature derived product images (above) showed that the Crater Creek Fire — located in far southern British Columbia, less than 10 miles from the Washington border... Read More