Cloud streets billow over the Atlantic behind a powerful cold front
There’s always something cool bubbling in our skies above. It’s worth taking a peek at satellite imagery every day to see what nifty features you can spot floating around. A powerful cold front brought frigid temperatures to much of the…
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Phenomenal bomb cyclone develops off the Pacific Northwest
An exceptionally powerful low-pressure system developing off the coast of the Pacific Northwest this afternoon is a sight to behold on satellite imagery. The storm is undergoing bombogenesis—hence the “bomb cyclone” moniker. Bombogenesis…
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NOAA’s Latest Weather Satellite Is Ready For Launch
If everything goes according to plan, NOAA will launch its newest weather satellite on Tuesday. The agency plans to launch GOES-T into orbit from Cape Canaveral, Florida, during the late afternoon hours on March 1st. The launch window opens at 4:38 p.m.…
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GOES-17 Is Back Online After Engineers Resolve A Computer Error
Some good news on the satellite front: GOES-17 is going to be just fine. The weather satellite, which covers the Pacific Ocean and the western half of the Americas, came back online a little before 9:00 a.m. Eastern today after a 31-hour outage caused by…
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GOES-17, A Fighter Among Weather Satellites, Faces Yet Another Health Hiccup
The weather satellite that monitors the Pacific Ocean and western North America went into safety mode and stopped transmitting data early Thursday morning. There’s no public word on what’s troubling GOES-17, which is also called GOES-West,…
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This Is Your World Today | December 31, 2020
Today is the 366th day of the longest year we’ve been through in a long time. Fires, floods, tornadoes, excessive heat, bitter cold, massive snows, and hurricanes upon hurricanes upon hurricanes—and that’s just the weather. It’s hard to…
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GOES-17, The Little Weather Satellite That Could, Survived Another Hiccup Last Night
The United States’ newest weather satellite survives to sense another day. GOES-17, known in service as GOES-West, suffered a 10.5-hour outage this morning after a reported software glitch caused the satellite to stop transmitting products and…
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The United States’ New Weather Satellite Isn’t Quite as Broken as We Thought
Are you ready for some preliminary, non-operational good news? Sure you are! It’s about time we had something positive. GOES-17, the shiny new satellite the United States launched into orbit a couple of months ago, isn’t quite as broken as we…
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NOAA’s Newest Weather Satellite Isn’t Working Properly
One of GOES-17’s most important instruments can’t cool off properly. NOAA broke the bad news today concerning the new weather satellite the United States launched into orbit back on March 1 of this year. The news comes not long after the…
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The West Coast’s Most Advanced Weather Satellite Is Set to Launch This Week
March will come in with the roar of rocket engines for weather geeks and space buffs around the world when the United States launches its newest weather satellite into orbit. GOES-S will lift off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, just after 5:00 PM Eastern…
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