The Storm Prediction Center has deemed 6 May 2024 as a day with a High Risk of severe weather over the central/south-central Plains: By 2100 UTC, strong convection had developed from South Dakota...
At the request of Pacific Region Headquarters, the LightningCast domain centered on American Samoa has increased. At 1840 UTC, the domain roughly doubled, as shown in the two screen shots below f...
EUMETSAT Meteosat-9 Infrared Window (10.8 µm) images (above) showed Cyclone Hidaya as it intensified from a Tropical Storm (at 1200 UTC on 02 May) to Category 1 Hurricane intensity at 0000 UTC o...
Overlapping 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sectors provided 30-second interval GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) — which showed thunderstorms that produced tornadoes, ...
12 days after its powerful eruption on 17 April, 10-minute JMA Himawari-9 AHI Infrared Window (10.4 µm) images (above) showed another explosive eruption of Mount Ruang in Indonesia on 29 Ap...
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) Visible/Infrared Sandwich RGB images (above) showed thunderstorms that produced tornadoes, large hail and damaging winds (SPC Storm Rep...
High Pressure over the Great Lakes on 25 April meant a spectacular true-color view of the 5 Great Lakes (apologies to Lake Champlain) by the VIIRS instruments on NOAA-20. A similar view was recor...
An extended dry period over the Marianas Islands was broken (at least temporarily) on 24 April when training thunderstorms dropped more than 5 inches of rain at the Guam airport. The US Drought M...
5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) included an overlay of the Fire Mask derived product (a component of the GOES Fire Detection and Characteriza...
There are several satellites that routinely image the Sun, to support Space Weather. Due to the recent total solar eclipse, there has been much interest in the Sun. SUVI The GOES-R series also ha...