26 April 2016

GOES 14 One Minute Imagery of Plains Storms

Posted by Dan Satterfield

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The spare GOES 14 weather satellite can send back an image every minute, and it was turned on today to give forecasters a look at the tornado and severe storms developing in the Plains. We will see this imagery more frequently in the future after the launch of the GOES R weather satellite next fall. You can see the imagery at the link below, but you will need a good connection, and a recent computer to handle the loop of high resolution images. Give it at least 90 seconds to load.

http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/ramsdis/online/loop.asp?data_folder=goes-west_goes-east/goes-14_1_minute_visible_sector_02&width=1020&height=720&number_of_images_to_display=60&loop_speed_ms=80

Here is the same view in IR, showing the temperatures of the cloud tops.

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