Question about time of floater sat pics

[canecaster]

skysummit wrote:
canecaster wrote:
Is it normal for the floater sat pics to be 2 hours old?


Mine's not. The latest image should be 12:45z.....30 minutes old.



I think the current UTC is 14:30, while the latest image is 12:45, wouldn't that be almost 2 hours old

Just wondering about the lag time, sorry if it's a stupid question

[senorpepr]

skysummit wrote:
canecaster wrote:
Is it normal for the floater sat pics to be 2 hours old?


Mine's not. The latest image should be 12:45z.....30 minutes old.



I think the current UTC is 14:30, while the latest image is 12:45, wouldn't that be almost 2 hours old

Just wondering about the lag time, sorry if it's a stupid question

Actually, it was 13:30Z when you posted that. Images are shot at 15 and 45 after the hour and take a little extra time to process and get onto the web. Therefore, the 12:45Z image was the current at the 13:15Z will arrive around 13:20-30-ish

[wjs3]

I think you might have your UTC messed up there...if I'm understanding your question.

It is now about 8:40 Central time US--and about 13:40 GMT.

http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/

Images on the SSD floaters at the NHC update every half hour (I think), so they can have some lag.

I go here:

http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/GOES/

For clickable close up animations of areas of interest. Latest image there was 13:15Z.

[canecaster]

Thanks alot for the info, very helpful