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 1 at a point about 205 mi SSE of Mobile, AL. 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
- 27.9°N, 86.9°W view on map
- Window
- from until
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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 090531 ADMSDM SENIOR DUTY METEOROLOGIST NWS ADMINISTRATIVE MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL OPERATIONS COLLEGE PARK MD 0530Z FRI OCT 09 2026 MDS STATUS... Both GOES-E Meso Sector 1 and 2 will be centered at 27.9N/86.9W until 09/1100Z, then re-positioned to 28.8N/86.5W from 09/1100Z to 10/0400Z, to provide 30-second imagery of Hurricane Isaias. Gerhardt/SDM/NCO