Morning radar on the morning of 19 January 2024 (shown below from this source) showed a single band of snow squalls moving southward over central Lake Michigan. Then band moved inland over northwestern Indiana, resulting in a winter storm warning over northwestern Indiana (More information from NWS IWX) and hazardous travel conditions through that heavily-traveled corridor between Chicago and Detroit. GOES-16 Clean... Read More

Overlapping 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sectors provided GOES-16 (GOES-East) images at 30-second intervals from all 16 of the ABI spectral bands in addition to a Rocket Plume RGB (above), which displayed the northeast-moving warm thermal signature of a SpaceX Falcon 9 stage 1 rocket booster as the Ax-3 Mission was launched from NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida... Read More

GOES-18 (GOES-West) and GOES-16 (GOES-East) True Color RGB images from the CSPP GeoSphere site (above) showed hazy arcs of blowing dust lofted by Tehuano gap winds that emerged from the south coast of Mexico — which spread out across the Gulf of Tehuantepec and the adjacent waters of the Pacific Ocean... Read More

LightningCast probability fields are routinely produced at CIMSS and incorporated into a RealEarth display (LightningCast probability fields are also available in some National Weather Service AWIPS machines). An example of LightningCast is shown below over Southern Florida. Contours show the probability of a GLM observation of lightning within the next 60 minutes:... Read More