The performance of the
https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/index.php site had been slowly deteriorating Sunday until it failed altogether last evening. The image displayed there is obviously from last evening and not current.
Here is an example of the current state of just one directory, the Upper Mississippi Valley GEOCOLOR. Obviously, their satellite acquisition and rendering scheme had a breakdown somewhere. Hopefully it's just software, because if it's hardware they, and we, may be in deep doodoo.
'Preliminary' is, after all, the key word here.
On another note, there's a new version of my GOES16 script dated yesterday
on my site. I was trying to troubleshoot some issues yesterday, but the absence of current images made it difficult. Plus hitting on their server as much as I was didn't feel quite right. I tried to place a control box on the bottom that contained the times of the images, but HAniS stripped out the base URL as though the images were local. Until the cdn.star.nesdis.noaa.gov site is fully functional again there's no way I can demonstrate the problem for Tom Whittaker, the creator of HAniS, and finally get a display of the image times. All scripts need to be replaced after preserving your customizations. Tom's latest HAniS version is also included just for completeness.
Meanwhile, I've just placed the time of the first image my script is looking for as well as the last
beneath the animation. Right now, the images obviously aren't appearing, so the times are at the top of the blank space.