This 'Special Message' has been up for a while now. The GOES16 Imagery, while available, is still labeled at the bottom of the page as unsuitable for production use, hence 'preliminary'. I've assembled a script that works fairly well for the new, SSL-enabled or 'https://', site because a couple of weeks ago the GOES-East HAniS loops disappeared from the OSPO site and I pared my HAniS script down to GOES-West only. Then I saw recently that the GOES-East HAniS loops reappeared, so I've returned 'wxus-allloops-h5.php' to its original state. As of today there's nothing to do there.
If you're interested in a very early look at the
GOES16 HAniS script a zip is available, without the HAniS javascript,
here. You can get the latest HAniS version using the link provided at the bottom of '
wxGOES16-HAniSLoops.php'.
I think there are two problems with the new script: firstly, there are no time overlays on the images so I need to cobble together a way to do this, and secondly orientation as to place isn't intuitively obvious. When skies are clear the nocturnal Geocolor images' centers of light pollution provide an excellent way to orient to place, and during the day the larger bodies of water do the same. Clouds present a problem that can be partially overcome by loading one of the individual bands that all DO have an outline of the states overlaid.
Perhaps the new GOES-East Image Viewer team will rectify the place-orientation problem with a map overlay on the Geocolor images, but their times are currently above the images on their animations so I don't think they will provide a date-time overlay.
They also have 300x300 and 1200x1200 pixel images available, so perhaps this is something I could add to my script in order to accommodate any desire to use smaller or larger images?