Satellite sector moved
Satellite moves MDS STATUS...
Each GOES weather satellite has two “mesoscale sectors” — small, movable windows that the satellite photographs roughly every 60 seconds, far more often than its routine full-disk and continental scans. Forecasters aim them at whatever is most important that day. This section announces where they are being pointed and for how long.
GOES-East is pointing mesoscale sector 2 over 34.0°N, 32.5°W — to keep a close eye on a tropical system. That means this patch of sky gets a fresh satellite image about once a minute instead of every 5 to 10 minutes, so forecasters can watch storms develop almost in real time.
- Centre point
- 34.0°N, 32.5°W view on map
- Window
- until
- Reason given
- monitoring Tropical Storm Fay in the Atlantic
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Exactly as NWS transmitted it. Everything above is our plain-English reading of this text — if the two ever disagree, this is the authoritative version.
000 NOUS42 KWNO 202312 ADMSDM SENIOR DUTY METEOROLOGIST NWS ADMINISTRATIVE MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL OPERATIONS COLLEGE PARK MD 2312Z SUN SEP 20 2026 MDS STATUS... GOES-E MDS Sector 2 is centered over 34.0N/32.5W until 22/0000Z in support of monitoring Tropical Storm Fay in the Atlantic. Renkevens/SDM/NCO