Persistent rains over the New York City metropolitan area have caused urban flooding on 29 September (29 September is the wettest day since 1948 in NYC well!). MIMIC TPW, above (source), shows moisture moving inland from the Atlantic Ocean. It’s often the case that heavy rain is accompanied by advection of moisture at multiple layers in the atmosphere; the Advected Layer Precipitable Water product,... Read More
Scientists at CIMSS are putting a test version of the CSPP Geosphere site through its paces. The new version includes Level 2 products (Cloud Top Height, Cloud Top Pressure; both can be displayed using geo2grid software) — at full ABI resolution. The True-Color animation above shows Tropical Storms Phillipe and Rina... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) Dust RGB images (above) showed a plume of resuspended ash (brighter shades of pink) from the 1912 Novarupta-Katmai eruption in Alaska, which was being transported offshore across the Shelikof Strait toward Kodiak Island on 27 September 2023. Surface volcanic ash within the Valley Of Ten Thousand Smokes.was being lofted by strong northwesterly winds.Volcanic ash (VA)... Read More
New routine scheduleEWS-G1 (Electro-optical Infrared Weather System Geostationary) is a U.S. Space Force mission. The imager is now running a different routine scan schedule, as can be seen on the UW/SSEC geo-browser. This schedule includes scans of the Indian Ocean, the extended Indian Ocean and Full Disks. Previously only Full Disk images had been obtained every 30 minutes. An EWS-G1... Read More
