5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) GeoColor RGB images with an overlay of Next Generation Fire System (NGFS) Fire Detection polygons (above) showed the dense smoke plumes and thermal signatures associated with the ongoing Nopiming Provincial Park wildfire on 22 May 2025 (this wildfire exhibited extreme behavior and also produced numerous pyrocumulonimbus clouds on 13 May).GOES-19 Visible... Read More

Iceland enjoyed a remarkable string of clement weather in mid-May. The true-color animation below, taken from the NASA Worldview site, shows almost a fortnight of clear skies!VIIRS gives a high-resolution view of the surface and cloud features as shown above. JPSS satellites carry sounder instruments used to create NUCAPS data; NUCAPS profiles... Read More

Night Microphysics RGB imagery over the Samoan Islands, above, saved from the CSPP Geosphere site, shows the characteristic color changes in the Night Microphysics RGB imagery from pink/salmon to dark red as lines of cumulus grow to thunderstorms. GREMLIN fields from the CIRA Slider, below, show the satellite-estimated MRMS fields. Rain starts... Read More

A shortwave impulse spawned numerous supercell thunderstorms in a highly unstable and well-sheared environment in the Southeast U.S. ProbSevere v3 readily tracked numerous severe and tornadic storms across the region.One storm in particular produced tornadoes in Madison, Alabama, and prompted a tornado emergency warning. In this example, the ProbTor v3 was much higher... Read More