Just north of Libya on the afternoon of 17 March 2026, a large cyclone can be seen forcing a significant amount of dust from the Sahara to the Mediterranean. This true-color view from EUMETSAT’s Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) Flexible Combined Imager (FCI) depicts this situation beautifully. Since MTG-FCI has three... Read More

5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Visible images with an overlay of GLM Flash Extent Density (above) showed the signature of a high-altitude bolide that was moving from southwestern Lake Erie toward far northern Ohio during the 5-minute period ending at 1301 UTC on 17 March 2026. This bolide created a sonic boom that was... Read More