GOES-18 Land Surface Skin Temperature, 1501 UTC 9 July 2024 – 0301 UTC 10 July 2024 (Click to enlarge) Oregon has seen triple-digit (o Fahrenheit) heat in early July 2024. (Here are records for 9 July) The animation below shows

Map of launch complexes on Merritt Island and Cape Canaveral The above wiki image is credited to : “Mark Wade 2003 (text) NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team 2006-09-01 (photo) Borrow-188 and Soumya-8974 (compilation) – This file was derived from:

VIIRS I05 Infrared (11.45 µm) and Day Night Band visible (0.7 µm) imagery over Beryl at 0825 UTC on 8 July 2024 (Click to enlarge) Hurricane Beryl made a (final) landfall along the Texas Gulf Coast, near Matagorda TX, at

GOES-16 Clean Window (Band 13, 10.3 µm) infrared imagery overlain with GLM Observations of Flash Extent Density, 0946-1441 UTC on 5 July 2024 (Click to enlarge) GOES-16 infrared imagery, above, captures the landfall of Hurricane Beryl over Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula

GOES-16 Clean Window (Band 13, 10.3 µm) infrared imagery, half-hourly from 1200 UTC 3 July 2024 through 0100 UTC 4 July 2024 (Click to enlarge) GOES-16 clean window infrared imagery, above, shows the evolution (at half-hourly intervals; in reality, 1-minute

The GOES-U rocket launch on SpaceX Falcon Heavy provided an opportunity for GOES-East (16) and -West (18) to monitor the launch and booster re-entries. Both the operational GOES were taking special (research) ABI meso-scale sectors of the launch, with GOES-16