DISCUSSION: In the wake of the recent Nor'easter which impacted many parts of the Mid-Atlantic and the Northeast, there are several neat angles which are worth discussing well after the low pressure system's exit. Attached above is a satellite view of the landscape across the Mid-Atlantic and the Northeast which exhibits the presence of wave clouds, snow and offshore cloud streets which were all in place within 24 hours after the conclusion of this recent snowstorm. In looking back to March 16th, the following satellite animation attached above is all that was left from the Pi Day Nor'Easter as seen from NOAA's GOES-East satellite on March 16, 2017. This natural color animation looking at the northeastern U.S.was created by the NASA/NOAA GOES Project at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Note how you can clearly see the effect of the much colder air moving across the relatively warmer waters of the far western Atlantic Ocean. This facilitated the large-scale environment which remained conducive for the development of offshore cloud streets. In some cases, these cloud streets even produced very light snowfall as well over parts of western Atlantic Ocean positioned just offshore which had little to no impacts on any forms of shipping and/or private travel.
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Insider to GOES-R Geostationary Lightning Mapper (credit: NOAA Satellite and Information Service)3/9/2017 
DISCUSSION: As of late November 2016, the newest and most state-of-the-art satellite orbiting Earth today, GOES-R was launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral. After just three months since that time, many initial images and perspectives of various sensors which are aboard GOES-R are being realized for the first time. Among them is the Geostationary Lightning Mapper (or GLM) which is a sensor aboard GOES-R which is literally revolutionizing the way in which scientists and researchers observe lightning in various convective events throughout its coverage domain. The GLM allows operational forecasters to more easily identify different types of lightning strikes such as cloud-to-cloud, cloud-to-air, and cloud-to-ground. Having said that, this will greatly allow forecasters to more effectively anticipate future changes of convective events in real-time. Attached below is a neat insight courtesy of staff from the NOAA Satellite and Information Service for all of you to read and enjoy!
"The first images from GOES-16’s Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) —the first instrument of its kind in geostationary orbit—have arrived! This animation from the GLM shows lightning in clouds associated with the weather system that produced severe thunderstorms and a few tornadoes in East Texas on February 14, 2017. The GLM can monitor a given area at 500 frames per second, and can distinguish individual lightning strikes within each flash. The GLM continually looks for lightning flashes in the Western Hemisphere, so forecasters know when a storm is forming or intensifying. In addition to spotting cloud-to-ground lightning, the GLM can also detect in-cloud lightning, which often occurs five to 10 minutes or more before dangerous cloud-to-ground strikes. As Rapid increases of lightning are a signal that a storm is strengthening quickly and could produce severe weather, the GLM will provide forecasters with more time for to alert communities of a developing threat. To learn more about the GLM, go to goo.gl/8XTz00." To learn more about other topics in applied meteorology, be sure to click here! ©2017 Meteorologist Jordan Rabinowitz Next Generation Environmental Monitoring Satellite Platform Launches! (credit: BBC News via CIMSS)3/7/2017  DISCUSSION: During the day on Monday, history was made all the way down in French Guiana. This historic day was marked by the launch of the Sentinel-2B satellite which is joining the Sentinel-2A satellite as well to make for some cutting-edge research company several miles above the surface of the Earth. The purpose of this newest satellite is to constantly monitor various aspects of Earth as part of the European Union's Copernicus environmental monitoring program. As explained in much greater detail in the following video found in the link below, this satellite will hep contribute to the global advanced satellite revolution which was recently boosted by the United States as of late November of 2016. That being accomplished with the deployment of the GOES-R (or GOES-16) satellite which is already revolutionizing the way in which operational forecasting will be able to forecast and generate timely and efficient warnings for various weather and weather-related hazards. Much in the way GOES-R is already revolutionizing weather forecasting and future weather research, Sentinel-2B will similarly be revolutionizing both satellite-based monitoring and observations of the environment and many details thereof. To learn more about this historic satellite launch, click on the following link!
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