Strong winds in the wake of a cold front lofted areas of blowing dust across parts of southern New Mexico, southwestern Texas and northern Mexico on 19 April 2025, as seen in GOES-19 (GOES-East) Visible images (above). The peak wind gust at El Paso, Texas (KELP) was 50 kts (58 mph), and... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) showed 2 supercell thunderstorms that produced numerous tornadoes, hail to 4.00″ in diameter and wind gusts to 86 mph (SPC Storm Reports | NWS Omaha event summary) across parts of eastern Nebraska and western Iowa on 17 April 2025. Pulses of overshooting tops in addition... Read More
5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) daytime True Color RGB images created using Geo2Grid (above) provided a distinct view of widespread blowing dust that spread northeastward across much of New Mexico during the day on 17 April 2025 — eventually reaching the Texas/Oklahoma Panhandles (and even southeast Colorado and southwest Kansas). After sunset,... Read More
True-color imagery over Lakes Erie/Ontario shows a white patch backed into extreme eastern Lake Erie, and also in Lake Ontario at the mouth of the Niagara River. White patches also exist over inland portions of New York, between Fredonia and Houghton. Are these white regions clouds or snow? Visible imagery,... Read More
