10-minute Full Disk sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) Day Land Cloud Fire RGB, Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm), “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) and “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images with an overlay of the Fire Mask derived product (a component of the GOES Fire Detection and Characterization Algorithm FDCA) (above) displayed signatures of a wildfire in far northeastern British Columbia, which produced... Read More

GOES-16 (GOES-East) Nighttime Microphysics RGB images (above) showed a thunderstorm that moved southeast from the New Mexico / Texas border across the southern Texas Panhandle Plains on 29 May 2024. A narrow northwest-to-southeast oriented hail swath produced by this storm  — from south of Clovis, New Mexico (KCVN) to south of Lubbock,... Read More