GOES 19 WEST outage and map Data

[TheBUG]

2 minutes ago

Does the Goes 19-East Satellite being down affect the predictions of Wildfire Smoke and Hurricanes for the Windy prediction maps? Particularly for Sounthern/Eastern New England?

[Wheats]

@TheBUG

Looks like GOES-19 is operational again.
https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/operations/goes/status.html

Wildfire smoke - if you are referring to the PM2.5 layer, that's provided by Copernicus and uses the ECMWF IFS model - different models are available depending on region I think.

Hurricanes - I actually have no idea where they get the data for those...
@suty Where does the Hurricane data come from? There is nothing in the info blurb.

[Suty]

@Wheats Hurricane tracker uses more data sources. You can also switch various models to see their own reports: