GOES-16 Mesoscale Sector imagery (Band 2, visible, 0.64 µm) over Milton, 1322-1521 UTC, 7 October 2024 (Click to enlarge) Visible imagery over Hurricane Milton after sunrise on 7 October, above, shows a compact system about 100 miles northwest of the

NOAA was formed on October 3, 1970. To commemorate this date, a few GOES related figures. GOES has been around since 1975, although there were earlier non-operational versions operated by NASA, such as ATS. The continuity of GOES. Note that

ABI There are many examples of GOES monitoring the Moon’s shadow on the Earth. This example blow occurred on October 2, 2024 and is the CIMSS true color RGB composite from the (Preliminary/Non-operational) GOES-19 ABI. A link to the mp4.

LightningCast Probability over northern South America, plotted over Day Cloud Phase Distinction imagery, 1420 UTC on 2 October 2024 (Click to enlarge) As first hinted at in this blog post, the Community Satellite Processing Package for Geostationary Data (CSPP-Geo) (https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/csppgeo/ )

NOAA and NASA recently released the first ABI (Advanced Baseline Imager) imagery from GOES-19. GOES-U was launched on June 25, 2024. The (Preliminary/Non-operational) GOES-19 ABI images on this page are from this very early stage. See the GOES-U launch as

Cloud Phase RGB imagery from FCI data, 1000 – 1700 UTC on 1 October 2024 Data from the Flexible Combined Imager (FCI) on board MTG-I1 (Meteosat Third Generation), operating in parallel with Meteosat-10, with a sub-satellite point at 0oN, 0oE,