Contributors: Scott Bachmeier, Mat Gunshor, Rick Kohrs, Margaret Mooney, Jim Nelson, Tim Schmit, and Eric Verbeten. True-Color imagery over the GOES-East CONUS sector (Courtesy Jim Nelson, SSEC/CIMSS) The animation above (here) will auto-update about every 20 minutes. GOES-West Band 2

NOAA-20 Day Night Band visible (0.7 µm) imagery, 0716 UTC on 8 April 2024 (Click to enlarge) For a solar eclipse to occur, the moon must be in between the Earth and the Sun. This occurs when the Moon is

GOES-18 Mid-Level Water Vapor images at the beginning of the eclipse period, from 19 February to 07 April [click to play animated GIF | MP4] For a period of about 45 days on either side of the Spring (Vernal) and

GOES-16 Mid-level (6.9 µm) and Upper-level (6.2 µm) Water Vapor images (with/without a map overlay), from 1201 UTC on 05 April to 0001 UTC on 06 April; rawinsonde sites are plotted in red [click to play animated GIF | MP4]

MetopB ASCAT winds, 0745, 0724 and 0703 UTC on 3, 4, 5 April, respectively, 2024 (Click to enlarge) A series of Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT) images (ascending passes) from Metop-B, above, show a large region of gale force winds surrounding the

GOES-16 True Color RGB images, from 1501 UTC on 04 April to 0016 UTC on 05 April [click to play MP4 animation] 5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) True Color RGB images from the CSPP GeoSphere site (above) displayed smoke plumes