I recently built a side project recently that automatically downloads GOES-17 imagery every 10 minutes and then compiles it into a video.
The result is pretty darn awesome! Here is 3 weeks of GOES-17 imagery sourced from NOAA / CIRA / RAMMB. The video begins the night of August 15th, 2020 as lightning storms rolled through Northern California and runs until the afternoon of September 10th, 2020.
Almost immediately, you begin to see smoke plumes from fires created due to lightning strikes.
Note: The blue and yellow blocks that you see periodically flash on screen are the result of corrupted image data downlinked from GOES-17. I’m not sure exactly what causes this, but these errors are present within the original images files hosted on NOAA’s CDN.
(Be sure to bump up the video quality — YouTube’s default compression really ruins the image)
