Following the launch of SpaceX Starship Test Flight 12 (on 22 May), True Color RGB images from @noaa.gov #GOES16 and GOES-19 / #GOESEast showed the rocket booster's condensation cloud as it drifted eastward away from the Starbase launch site on the South Texas coast.

Since @noaa.gov #GOES16 has been briefly brought out of storage for testing, here's a 3-GOES Water Vapor imagery depiction of a "leeside cold frontal gravity wave" as it propagated southward across the central & southern Plains (note the changes in surface winds): cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-bl...

1-minute Visible and Shortwave Infrared images from @noaa.gov #GOESEast (GOES-19) showed a fast-moving grass fire that prompted the issuance of an Evacuation Immediate order for residents near Campo in far SE Colorado. More on the CIMSS Satellite Blog: cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-bl... #COwx

Donald Trump is the only person who can be wrong 100% of time and still keep his job.

1-minute GOES-19 imagery showing the development of a pyrocumulonimbus cloud near Dodge City, Kansas. #KSwx

#GOES16 has been temporarily brought out of storage for testing -- so a talented co-worker made a Full Disk image. Because it's Friday.

30-second Infrared imagery from @noaa.gov #GOESEast (GOES-19) included time-matched plots of SPC Storm Reports -- which showed an outbreak of tornadoes across southern Mississippi, in addition to large hail and damaging winds across parts of Mississippi and Alabama. #MSwx #ALwx

Severe thunderstorms produced hail, an EF1-rated tornado and damaging wind gusts as high as 119 mph near and along the South Texas coast this past Friday. More on the CIMSS Satellite Blog: cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-bl... #TXwx

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector #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. #NMwx

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 St. Louis. cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-bl...

1-minute GOES-19 Infrared images with time-matched plots of SPC Storm Reports showed the 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-bl...

We are preliminarily at 24 tornadoes from last week's storms. Wisconsin averages 23 tornadoes per year.

Nighttime Microphysics RGB + daytime True Color RGB images from @noaa.gov #GOESWest (GOES-18) showed a plume of lake effect clouds streaming SSE from the Great Salt Lake, which deposited a swath of light snow downwind of the lake: geosphere.ssec.wisc.edu#playing:true...; #UTwx

1-minute #GOESEast (GOES-19) infrared images with plots of 1-minute GLM Flash Points showed that there was 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

1-minute @noaa.gov #GOESEast (GOES-19) Visible images with time-matched plots of SPC Storm Reports showed thunderstorms that produced tornadoes & large hail (up to 3.25" in diameter) & damaging winds (up to 88 mph) across southern Wisconsin, far NE Iowa & far SE Minnesota.

Big-ass hail with the tornado sirens going off. Luckily the proactive beer run was completed.

2.5-minute #Himawari9 Infrared images showed Typhoon #Sinlaku as it made landfall over the islands of Saipan (station identifier PGSN) ant Tinian in the Mariana Islands, at Category 4 intensity.

Nocturnal #VIIRS Day/Night Band image from #NOAA20 provided a stunning example of mesospheric airglow waves propagating radially outward from 150-knot Category 5 Super Typhoon #Sinlaku (which was located southeast of Guam and the Mariana Islands).

2.5-minute #Himawari9 Infrared images showed Super Typhoon #Sinlaku after it had rapidly intensified to a Category 5 storm (as of 1200 UTC), southeast of Guam and the Mariana Islands. cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-bl...

[email protected] #GOESWest (GOES-18) #GLM data captured the bright signature of the #NASA #ArtemisII #Orion capsule as it re-entered the Earth's atmosphere over the East Pacific Ocean.

1-minute Visible images + GLM Flash Points + Fire Mask derived product from @noaa.gov #GOESEast (GOES-19) captured 2 lightning-ignited wildfires (which produced small smoke plumes) in Oldham County, Texas (northwest of Amarillo). #TXwx

TONIGHT

Visible images with an overlay of the Fire Mask derived product from @noaa.gov #GOESEast showed thermal signatures and hazy smoke associated with prescribed burning across the Flint Hills of Kansas and Oklahoma yesterday. More on the CIMSS Satellite Blog: cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-bl...

ICYMI, there were some pretty cool satellite signatures of the Artemis II launch yesterday: cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-bl...

1-minute #GOESEast Visible, Water Vapor & Infrared images showed the development of vertically-propagating standing wave clouds over far northeastern South Dakota -- initiated by strong SW winds interacting with the topography of the Coteau des Prairies. #SDwx

2.5-minute #Himawari9 Infrared images showed the large eye of Category 4 Cyclone #Narelle as it approached North West Cape in Western Australia: cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-bl...

Microphysics RGB images from @noaa.gov #GOESEast (GOES-19) with overlays of Next Generation Fire System fire detection pixels showed the thermal signature of a fire following an explosion at the Valero oil refinery in Port Arthur, Texas on Monday evening. More: cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-bl...

2.5-minute #Himawari9 Infrared images suggest that Category 4 Cyclone #Narelle made landfall along Australia's York Peninsula coast just after 2100 UTC.

2.5-minute #Himawari9 Infrared images showed that the eye of Category 4 Cyclone #Narelle was becoming more cloud-filled as the storm began to encounter a more hostile environment of higher wind shear.

Nocturnal #VIIRS Day/Night Band image from @noaa.gov #NOAA21 revealed mesospheric airglow waves propagating radially outward from Category 4 Cyclone #Narelle as it approached Australia's Cape York Peninsula.

2.5-minute #Himawari9 Infrared images showed Cyclone #Narelle rapidly intensifying in the Coral Sea - becoming a Category 2 storm by 1200 UTC and a Category 3 by 1800 UTC. Coldest cloud-top temperatures were -90 to -95 C.

Cuba, perhaps best known for its lack of hurricanes...

True Color RGB images from #GOESEast (GOES-19) displayed a set of curved contrails created by military aircraft performing training exercises south of Dallas/Fort Worth - which drifted southeast toward the Texas coast. #TXwx geosphere.ssec.wisc.edu#playing:true...;

After grilling lunch, it might be time to use the roof rake.

Seems red.

ICYMI, the #MorrillFire (which began burning in the Nebraska Panhandle on 12 March) has burned nearly 549,000 acres -- making it the largest wildfire on record for the state of Nebraska. More on the CIMSS Satellite Blog: cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-bl... #NEwx

1-minute Visible and Infrared images from @noaa.gov #GOESEast (GOES-19) included time-matched plots of SPC Storm Reports, showing thunderstorms that produced tornadoes and hail as large as 4.00" in diameter across northern Illinois. #ILwx

Visible and Infrared images from @noaa.gov #GOESEast (GOES19) showed an isolated supercell thunderstorm that produced the earliest EF3-rated tornado on record in Lower Michigan (on Friday, March 6). More on the CIMSS Satellite Blog: cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-bl... #MIwx

VIIRS Day/Night Band imagery from @noaa.gov #SuomiNPP, #NOAA20 and #NOAA21 showed the effect of last night's #TotalLunarEclipse2026 -- more on the CIMSS Satellite Blog: cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-bl...

Not quite sure what to call this: it doesn't seem like a true banner cloud that's anchored to the Brooks Range, but rather some sort of standing wave just downwind of that terrain. @alaskawx.bsky.social @alaskagina.bsky.social @climatologist49.bsky.social any thoughts? #AKwx

OPERATION EPIC FLURRY

Unfortunately, this, like so much of what's going on in the country right now, is a problem that could be solved if JD Vance would simply stay the fuck out of Wisconsin.

True Color RGB images from @noaa.gov #GOESEast showed aircraft "glaciation trails" drifting across southern Lake Michigan -- caused by exhaust particles from jet engines that acted as efficient ice nuclei, causing ice crystals to grow larger and fall from the cloud layer.

The 1-minute GOES-19 imagery of Category 5 Hurricane #Melissa making landfall on Jamaica was certainly impressive -- more on the CIMSS Satellite Blog: cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-bl...

Flynally, some good news.

Water Vapor imagery from @noaa.gov #GOESEast (GOES-19) showed the evolution of the powerful record-setting Nor'easter during the February 22-23 period -- more on the CIMSS Satellite Blog: cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-bl...