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17 June 2005
Goes is Going
We have a new weather satellite going up later this month. Goes N will be launched (hopefully) on 24 June. This is the first of a new series of geostationary weather satellites. GOES N will eventually become GOES 13 and replace GOES 12 which has done a great job for the last several years. GOES images are the ones you see on TV every night during my weathercast. (and every …
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.