Interleaved 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector and 5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Upper-level Water Vapor images (above) displayed the SpaceX Starship 9 rocket exhaust plume thermal signature after it was launched from the Starbase facility at Boca Chica Beach, Texas at 2336 UTC on 27 May 2025. Note the change in... Read More
Imagery from the CSPP Geosphere site (link), above, shows an area of disturbed tropical weather to the south of Mexico in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The National Hurricane Center (link, and below) notes a lack of organization with slow development forecast over the next few days. (Note that GOES-West Mesoscale... Read More
Clear skies over the Gulf of Maine close to midnight early on 27 Man 2025 allowed for the VIIRS instrument on NOAA-20 to capture a crisp view of the sea surface temperatures over that body of water. Temperatures are cooler than 50oF over the entire Gulf of Maine, with low... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) Infrared and Visible images (above) showed the development of thunderstorms that moved southwestward across the Fairbanks North Star Borough during the early afternoon hours on 26 May 2025 — producing small hail and heavy rainfall at several locations. The coldest cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures associated with these thunderstorms... Read More
