GOES visible imagery is not available

Our local ISP has slowly been throttling back on our bandwidth.

Unfortunately this means that we can no longer download from NASA the very large GOES satellite visible images. So, until further notice these images will no longer be available.

Apologies to all.

Total Solar Elipse of July 22, 2009

The total solar eclipse of July 22, 2009 is said to be the longest eclipse of this century. For details on eclipse see NASA at:

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEmono/TSE2009/TSE2009.html.

Found that the best satellite imagery is in the visible spectrum on the MTSAT-1R satellite:

Link: http://internationalweatherarchive.org/satViewer.php
Satellite: MTSAT-1R
Sector: Full disk
Band: Visible
Start Time: 2009/07/22 00UTC
End Time: 2009/07/22 05UTC

I've seen eclipses before and have noticed cooling of the air. Was a bit surprised that IR did not show this cooling.

GOES East and West satellite image are returning

Our provider of imagery for GOES East and West is back in operation.

Over the next day or two, we expect to have caught up with the missing images.

GOES East and West satellite images unavailable

Due to problems with our data provider's systems, GOES East and West imagery after April 21, 2009 is not yet available. We are hoping that the problem is fixed soon.

GOES East satellite reinstated

On January 6, 2009 GOES East satellite GOES-12 was placed back into operation. We have modified our back-end systems to once again use the GOES-12 satellite for our GOES East feed.

New EUMETSAT Meteosat image source

Previous EUMETSAT imagery is no longer available.

Fortunately, the new images are even better than before. We now have many more image regions and higher resolution from the Meteosat Second Generation and Meteosat 7 weather satellites.

GOES East problem

GOES East satellite GOES-12 had a fuel leak on December 14, 2008 resulting in the satellite being taken out of service.

We have modified our back-end systems to use the GOES-13 satellite for our GOES East feed.