Today at 16:55 UTC, NOAA decommissioned NOAA-19, the most recently launched of the remaining legacy NOAA POES spacecraft. NOAA-19 launched on February 6th, 2009 and become operational on June 2nd, 2009. For the last 16 years, NOAA-19 has provided routine weather observations of the entire globe from low-earth orbit.The AVHRR... Read More
10-minute Full Disk scan GOES-19 (GOES-East) Nighttime Microphyscics RGB images from the CSPP GeoSphere site (above) showed a signature of the Ariane-62 rocket condensation cloud (darker shades of blue) following the launch of EUMETSAT Metop-SGA1 from Europe’s Spaceport (Guyana Space Center) at Kourou, French Guyana about 3 hours after sunset on 12 August 2025 (the... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Infrared images (above) showed thunderstorms that produced very heavy rainfall — with 4 sites reporting over 11 inches across parts of the Milwaukee metro area (text list | radar-estimated rainfall) during the 12-hour period from early in the evening on 09 August into the early morning hours on 10 August 2025.... Read More
Elevated smoke levels have been present in the upper Midwestern United States for well over a week, but recent synoptic-scale pattern shifts have started to bring in clearer (albeit warmer and more humid) air from the south. The following animation shows GOES-19-observed aerosol optical depth (AOD) for 1400 UTC (9:00... Read More
