7+ hour, 54+ min ago  (187+ words) 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Visible images (with/without an overlay of the FDCA Fire Mask derived product) and Shortwave Infrared images (above) showed the thermal anomaly associated with a fast-moving grass fire that moved northeastward across the Oklahoma…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago  (256+ words) On the afternoon of Friday, 15 May 2026, a wildfire broke out near Two Harbors, Minnesota, along the north shore of Lake Superior. Minnesota State Highway 61 was shut down to traffic and evacuation orders were issued for residents between Two Harbors and…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago  (157+ words) On the afternoon of 14 May 2026, a strong midlatitude cyclone centered over the prairie provinces of Canada forced very strong winds in the Northern Great Plains of the continental United States. This in turn lofted an extreme amount of dust into…...

1+ week, 16+ hour ago  (231+ words) By Tim Wagner " 10 May 2026 If we assume that the vertical profile at Lihue is reasonably representative of the conditions over Honolulu, then it could be possible that surface-based parcels would be positively buyoant. If we look at the start of…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (118+ words) By Scott Bachmeier " 5 May 2026 1-minute GOES-18 Infrared images with an overlay of GLM Flash Points and the Total Precipitable Water derived product, from 2201 UTC on 04 May to 1300 UTC on 05 May [click to play MP4 animation] GOES-18 Infrared image at 0250 UTC on…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (253+ words) Version 1 of the NOAA/CIMSS Lightning Cast model uses GOES-R ABI images to predict the probability of lightning in the next 60 minutes at any given location. It is being transitioned to NOAA/NESDIS operations. Lightning Cast v2 has been developed and…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (679+ words) cimss/ssec Lake Influence on Fair Weather Convection in the Upper Midwest One of the defining characteristics of spring in the upper midwest is a land surface that warms up much more quickly than the many lakes do. There's a…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (183+ words) In the afternoon and evening of 23 April 2026, numerous tornadoes touched down across the Great Plains of the continental United States. The storm reports gathered by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center show a line of tornadoes extending from central Iowa down to…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (177+ words) By Mat Gunshor " 22 April 2026 To celebrate we are going to show off some full-disk GOES imagery. Here's a selfie of almost everyone in North and South America today at 17: 00 UTC (roughly local noon to the satellite) from GOES-19 (GOES-East) ABI:…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (113+ words) 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East)Visible images (above)and Infrared images (below)included time-matched (+/- 3 minutes) plots of SPC Storm Reports " which showed the tornadoes, large hail (up to 3. 25" in diameter) and damaging winds (up to 88 mph) that occurred across…...