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Title: GOES18 Has Replaced GOES17
Post by: gwwilk on August 03, 2022, 08:39:10 AM

The GOES18 satellite has replaced GOES17 (https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/conus.php?sat=G18) operationally.  This means that any of my scripts that reference GOES17, GIF or HAniS-based loops, are now displaying stale images.

These scripts will have to be revised when I get a chance.  I'll see if I can 'Jerry'-rig Ken True's portion of the HAniS scripts, but he may be needed before these scripts are again functional.

This may take some time...

Title: Re: GOES18 Has Replaced GOES17
Post by: gwwilk on August 08, 2022, 11:27:21 AM

The NESDIS GOES18 (West) animation GIF's no longer include a pre-made GIF loop for Lightning or CO2 Longwave Window.  They create their site-visible Loops on the fly by including an image date and time in the script.  The HAniS-based GOES18 animations (https://www.gwwilkins.org/wxGOES18-HAniSLoops.php) already produce all of the available image types, so why reinvent the wheel?.  What this means for the future of the remaining pre-made GIF's remains to be seen, although their future may be in doubt.

A new GOES18 GIF Loop script (https://www.gwwilkins.org/wxGOES18-GIFLoops.php) is up on my site's script page (https://www.gwwilkins.org/gwwScripts.php).  This supplants the still-partially-functional GOES17 GIF Loop script (https://www.gwwilkins.org/wxGOES17-GIFLoops.php) which is no longer available because of the NESDIS GOES18 GIF animation removals and because it displays GOES18-labeled images under a GOES17 heading.