Fun with 1-minute imagery in the C&V process

Since it's Friday, and Friday deserves at least some pretty satellite imagery to look at...

The 1-minute imagery has been a constant companion of our Summer Experiment participants in the C&V grid editing process. It is their basis in reality and provides situational awareness of the cloud environment. Yesterday in particular was an interesting day as multiple layers of clouds cloud be seen over the lower Mississippi Valley. The 1-minute data provided additional detail on the movement of the various cloud layers and how it may affect sky cover forecasts later on.

There was also some interesting valley fog around the Mississippi River further north along the Wisconsin/Minnesota border. Forecasters overlaid the 1-minute loop on a high resolution topography image to watch the progression of the fog through the river valleys.

20160818 1308 -1428 UTC 1-minute visible imagery from GOES-14 SRSOR

One a side note, 1-minute imagery has also been used in the Convective SIGMET issuance process. While the new Hazard Services platform experiment in the AWT is focused much on knobology, the ability to overlay radar imagery on high temporal resolution satellite imagery has been of great benefit. More loops of this to come in the future!