This early morning pass from NOAA 19 is showing that it is mainly clear skies across the South Island and a bit cloudier over the North. There looks to be little if any rain around and the moment and the…
NOAA 18 this morning gave us two passes with a good view over a large area of the South Pacific around New Zealand. The North Island, other than around the Wellington area should have a pretty clear day with lots…
Having now received most of the items needed, missing the SAWbird (Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) plus a band pass filter) and an adaptor (I’ve one I’m using elsewhere which I can borrow), I’ve been having my first attempts to pick…
The NOAA 18 combined pass image from this morning shows an interesting weather system heading to New Zealand and it is large enough to affect the weather over the whole country, so well over 1,500km across! Whilst there isn’t a…
GOES 17, also known as GOES West, is a US weather satellite which is in a geostationary orbit 35,700km above the Earth. It was launched in March 2018 and it has a planned life out to about 2036, although based…