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The launch of SpaceX Starship Test Flight 12 (on 22 May), True Color RGB images from @NOAASatellites #GOES16 and #GOES19 showed the rocket booster's condensation cloud as it drifted eastward away from the Starbase launch site on the S. Texas coast. More: cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog…

With @NOAASatellites #GOES16 briefly out of storage for testing, here is a 3-GOES Water Vapor imagery depiction of a "leeside cold frontal gravity wave" as it propagated southward across the central and southern Plains today (19 May 2026)...

1-minute @NOAASatellites #GOES19 Sandwich Product imagery from yesterday evening (5/17/2026) showing multiple tornado warnings, mostly across Nebraska. #NEWX @NWSOmaha

1-minute Vis and Shortwave Infrared images from @NOAASatellites #GOESEast (#GOES19) showed a fast-moving grass fire that prompted the issuance of an Evacuation Immediate order 5/17/2026 for residents near Campo in far SE Colorado. More: cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog… #COwx @NWSPueblo

Here's @NOAASatellites #GOES16 today at local satellite noon (19:00UTC) with the CIMSS Natural Color enhancement. GOES-16 is out of storage for testing for about 2 weeks. Happy #FullDiskFriday!

30-second Infrared imagery from @NOAASatellites #GOESEast (#GOES19) with time-matched plots of SPC Storm Reports showed an outbreak of tornadoes across southern Mississippi, in addition to large hail and damaging winds across parts of Mississippi and Alabama yesterday (May 6).

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector @NOAASatellites #GOESWest (GOES-18) GeoColor RGB images with/without an overlay of NGFS Fire Detection polygons showed the thermal signature, smoke plume and dark burn scar of the wind-driven #SparksFire in Quay County, New Mexico. @NWSAlbuquerque

Overlapping 1-min Mesoscale Domain Sectors provided images at 30-sec intervals on 27 April; #GOESEast Visible imagery with time-matched plots of SPC Storm Reports showed hail as large as 4.00" in diameter & a wind gust to 60 mph southwest of @NWSStLouis.

@HawesMac93 Hi! Thanks for your interest in this image! It's called the Mollweide Projection and was generated in McIDAS-X: ssec.wisc.edu/mcidas/softwar…

@UWCIMSS Amazing! I’ve been trying to do this in sat dump, but I can’t get my projection to look that good - what kind of projection is that UTM?

Here's our local noon composite for #EarthDay made from 5 geostationary imagers (2 USA, 2 EUMETSAT, 1 JMA). Where were you at noon? Unless you were off planet or in the arctic/antarctic circle, you must be in this image somewhere! About local noon images: ssec.wisc.edu/data/composite…

1-min GOES-19 Infrared images w/ time-matched plots of SPC Storm Reports showed severe thunderstorms that produced hail as large as 4.00" in diameter in southern Kansas & the EF4-rated tornado (& 107 mph wind gust) near #Enid, Oklahoma on 23 April. More: cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog…

Now that the sun has set on the @NOAASatellites #GOESEast subpoint, here is an animation from sunrise to sunset for #EarthDay with the "CIMSS Natural Color" enhancement:

We did not forget that today is #EarthDay! Here is @NOAASatellites #GOES19 Full Disk at local satellite noon. More images and animations will be added to this CIMSS Satellite Blog post: cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog…

The @NWSSPC mesoscale discussion: spc.noaa.gov/products/md/md… and our realtime GOES-East imagery combined with our rooftop cameras website: cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/rtc_goes_… and @NWSMilwaukee issued thunderstorm and special marine warnings this afternoon. Stay safe!

From @NWSSPC: A small cluster of elevated tstorms has persisted into early afternoon in SE WI, aided by forcing for ascent attendant to an upstream shortwave trough. This animation shows what we saw from @NOAASatellites #GOESEast and our rooftop cameras as it appeared overhead.

1-minute @NOAASatellites #GOESEast Infrared images with plots of 1-minute GLM Flash Points show lightning activity in the general vicinity of Pewaukee, Wisconsin during the 10-minute period leading up to the reported time of the fatality (0043 UTC). #WIwx cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog…

There is a 1-to-1 dollar match up to the first $10,000 donated. Check out last year's 5 student recipients of the Suomi Scholarship: ssec.wisc.edu/news/articles/…

There's about 1 hour left to donate to our #DayoftheBadger fundraiser for scholarships for high school seniors going to a UW school. More on last year's recipients in the comments. You can donate here: dayofthebadger.org/campaign/space…

1-min @NOAASatellites #GOESEast Visible images with time-matched @NWSSPC Storm Reports show T-storms that produced tornadoes & large hail (up to 3.25" diameter) & damaging winds (88 mph) across S Wisconsin, far NE Iowa & far SE Minnesota Tuesday 4/14. cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog…

It begins! The 2026 #DayoftheBadger is a spirited 1848-minute event to support students and future scientists at SSEC and @UWCIMSS. Thanks to a generous donation, your gift will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $10,000: dayofthebadger.org/campaign/space…