A historic moment: Category 5 Hurricane Melissa making landfall in Jamaica yesterday as seen from the GOES-19 satellite. It's a 6-hour-loop starting at 11.30 UTC, Oct. 28.

Images: SLIDER by RAMMB @cira-csu.bsky.social

Yesterday a, wildfires in Spain and Portugal went completely ballistic with large pyrocumulus clouds visible on the geostationary satellite images. Also the burn scars of recent fire activity are easily visible (dark spots).
Images: sat24.com

In most media this is barely reported on, but what has been going on in Canada recently is simply mind blowing. Think about France, Germany and Poland under a blanket of smoke. That’s the actual scale of this.
Imagery: GOES-19, CIRA/CSU, August 6