How often have you heard a weather forecaster say that a cold front is passing through? This air temperature processed image from NOAA 18 for a pass this morning at 9:46 local time here in NZ really is a perfect…
I’ve just started to tweet videos showing the last three days from different satellites so I was intently watching what they looked like to ensure that everything was working perfectly. But the GOES 17 video looked a bit odd. I’m…
Whilst making some changes to some of the GK-2A code I noticed a new directory and file that I’d never seen before. Looking back, I noticed a few other similar downloaded files. So the question was what was it. The…
Not long after the events of GOES 17 Outage I had reserved another similar event of issues that had seemed to mirror a possible GOES17 outage. Sure enough, I had received the watchdog emails which my station was responsible for…
Before GOES 17 took over as GOES West, GOES 15 was the previous GOES West satellite. It is still in orbit and it is effectively on standby in case there are issues with one of the current satellites, GOES East…