While it may be winter, unseasonably warm conditions on February 19 were able to support convection across portions of the midwest and into southern Ontario. Convection began firing at multiple locations, including metropolitan St. Louis, Missouri; northeastern Indiana, and southeastern Illinois. To start with, let’s look at the 1500 UTC... Read More
The Storm Prediction Center issued Extreme Fire Weather Outlooks (1200 UTC | 1700 UTC) that covered much of the central and southern Plains on 17 February 2026. A large-scale view of 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Visible images (above) included plots of Fire Mask pixels — which depicted the development of numerous wildfires, most notably along... Read More
An intriguing fog event took place over Lake Superior on Sunday, 15 February. On a day that was otherwise clear and unseasonably warm, fog crept westward as though it was trying to cover the entire lake. The following animation shows the entire day of GOES-19 true color imagery as viewed... Read More
The NASA/SpaceX Crew-12 Mission to the International Space Station was launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1015 UTC on 13 February 2026 — and overlapping 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sectors from GOES-19 (GOES-East) provided 30-second images from all 16 ABI spectral bands (above). Since this was a nighttime launch, varying shades of white... Read More
