Oregon has seen triple-digit (o Fahrenheit) heat in early July 2024. (Here are records for 9 July) The animation below shows GOES-18 Land Surface Temperatures on 9 July. This hourly level-2 product is created in clear skies. It shows warmest values between 2100 and 2200 UTC on 9 July 2024. Land Surface Temperature imagery is... Read More
The above wiki image is credited to : “Mark Wade 2003 (text) NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team 2006-09-01 (photo) Borrow-188 and Soumya-8974 (compilation) – This file was derived from: CCAFS.jpg.All the GOES launches have been from Cape Canaveral (FL), but the launch pads used have varied over the decades.... Read More
Hurricane Beryl made a (final) landfall along the Texas Gulf Coast, near Matagorda TX, at about 4 AM CDT/0900 UTC on 8 July. VIIRS imagery, above, from the SSEC/CIMSS Direct Broadcast antenna, shows infrared (I05, 11.45 µm) imagery and Day Night Band visible (0.7 µm) imagery around the time of landfall. It is noteworthy that city lights are unable to penetrate the thick clouds (some of the reduction in... Read More
GOES-16 infrared imagery, above, captures the landfall of Hurricane Beryl over Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula near the town of Tulum at 1105 (UTC) (NHC Discussion). Beryl continues a brisk motion (15 mph) towards the west-northwest, so its time over land will not be very long. This will affect its subsequent strength over... Read More
