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

NUCAPS Sounding Availability points from MetopC, 0159 UTC (east coast), ca. 0400 UTC (Great Plains) and ca. 0530 UTC (West Coast); Gridded fields of 850-mb temperature are also shown (Click to enlarge) Metop-C and NOAA-20 are now both supplying NUCAPS

While the view of the Sun from the ground may, or may not be, affected by clouds during the eclipse on April 8th, the view of the Moon’s shadow on the Earth will be viewed from NOAA‘s GOES ABI. There