Archive: Jul 2024
Clear skies over the Great Lakes
A clear night over the Great Lakes — associated with a large High Pressure System, shown below in the 0600 UTC Surface Analysis — allowed a high-resolution view of Lake Surface Temperatures. There are thin filaments of colder waters hugging different coastlines: the eastern shore of Lake Michigan, the western... Read More
Typhoon Gaemi and Taiwan
Typhoon Gaemi took a very unusual path on its route to a landfall along the eastern shore of Taiwan on 24 July 2024. HImawari-9 Clean Window infrared (Band 13, 10.4 µm) target scene imagery, below, (here is a shorter animation (animated gif) animation than the mp4 below) shows the storm... Read More
How Small of a Rocket Signature can GOES “see”?
There are many examples of NOAA‘s GOES ABI detecting the spectral signatures of large rockets. These include GOES-S, GOES-T, GOES-U, GOES-U boosters, Starliner, Falcon 9, Ariane, Himawari-9, Antares, etc. If the rocket is large enough, there is often a signal in each of the 16 ABI bands. Of course the timing of the ABI scan... Read More