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-West is pointing mesoscale sector 1 over Alaska, about 470 mi SW of Juneau, AK — in support of wx ops at WFOs Juneau and Anchorage. 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
- 53.0°N, 142.0°W view on map
- Window
- from until
- Reason given
- wx ops at WFOs Juneau and Anchorage
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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 201609 ADMSDM SENIOR DUTY METEOROLOGIST NWS ADMINISTRATIVE MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL OPERATIONS COLLEGE PARK MD 1605Z SUN SEP 20 2026 MDS STATUS... GOES-W MDS Sector 1 is centered over 53N/142W from 1603Z to 21/1500Z in support of wx ops at WFOs Juneau and Anchorage. Handel/SDM/NCO