The SpaceX Starship Flight Test 12 was launched from the Starbase facility at 2230 UTC on 22 May 2026 — and 5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-16 and GOES-19 (GOES-East) True Color RGB images created using Geo2Grid (above) showed the Super Heavy rocket booster condensation cloud as it drifted away from the South Texas coast and... Read More
NWS Pago Pago forecasters (and Friends of the Blog) Jane Allen and Brayden Barton sent along some video and pictures of a significant thunderstorm that rocked the American Samoan Island of Tutuila in the hours before sunrise on Wednesday, May 20th, 2026. First, here is a video showing the intensity... Read More
The GOES-16 satellite was temporarily brought out of storage for annual testing (details) — which allowed for a 3-GOES (GOES-18/GOES-West positioned at 137.0 W longitude, GOES-16 at 104.7 W longitude and GOES-19/GOES-East at 75.2 W longitude) Water Vapor image comparison of the signature of a leeside cold frontal gravity wave... Read More
During a period when American Samoa had been under a Flood Watch, the Weather Service Office at Pago Pago requested that a GOES-18 (GOES-West) Mesoscale Domain Sector be positioned over the region — due to their lack of radar, more frequent satellite imagery can be a critical tool for monitoring the development of deep... Read More
