VIIRS Day Night Band Imagery and ACSPO SSTs, 0715 UTC on 29 March 2024 (Click to enlarge) NOAA-20’s early morning orbit and clear skies allowed a distinct view of Sea Surface Temperatures over the Gulf of Mexico and the East

Himawari-9 Day Cloud Phase Distinction RGB (left) and LightningCast Probabilities (right), 0000-0400 UTC on 29 March 2024 (Click to enlarge) LightningCast is a product within the ProbSevere portfolio that uses 4 ABI (or AHI) channels to estimate the likelihood of

Depending on the needed lead time, there are many ways to estimate the cloud cover on a given day/time. This includes climatology, long-range (global) models, shorter-range (regional) models and then satellite and other measurements. April 8th is a day of

Guam 1200 UTC Sounding (left), NOAA-20 NUCAPS Sounding, 1208 UTC (middle) and MetopC NUCAPS Sounding, 1516 UTC (right) on 26 March 2024 (Click to enlarge) The addition of a 2nd satellite (MetopC) producing NUCAPS profiles means that places such as

GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images, with/without hourly plots of surface observations, from 1301-2001 UTC on 23 March [click to play animated GIF | MP4] GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) showed 2 swaths of fresh snow cover

GOES-16 True Color imagery from the CSPP Geosphere site, 1531-2031 UTC on 21 March 2024 The animation above shows true-color imagery from the CSPP Geosphere site (direct link to animation). Of particular interest is the cloud band that forms along