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Category: Fog detection

Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) Probability from GOES-17

Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) are rules and guidelines put in place by the Federal Aviation Administration that govern conditions in which “flight by outside visual reference is not safe”, whether by low clouds or fog. Cloud and reflectance data from geostationary satellites GOES-16 and GOES-17 provide a satellite IFR Probability... Read More

Gridded NUCAPS over the ocean and IFR Probability

The image above (from 2100 UTC on 28 February 2022) and below (from 0930 UTC on 1 March 2022) toggle between low-level estimates of 1000-mb dewpoint and GOES-16 IFR Probability fields. Is there a general relationship between the two? At first blush, it does seem like the IFR Probability fields... Read More