A large severe weather outbreak took place across the south central United States on Wednesday 2 April 2025. The NWS Storm Prediction Center (SPC) anticipated a significant weather event in the region, having predicted an enhanced risk of severe weather as early as Monday 31 March and a rare high risk the night before the event.... Read More
On a rare High Risk Convective Outlook day, a widespread outbreak of severe thunderstorms produced tornadoes, large hail and damaging winds (SPC Storm Reports) across a large swath of the central and eastern US during the afternoon and subsequent nighttime hours on 02 April 2025. As mentioned in this blog post, GOES-19 had arrived at the GOES-East position (over... Read More
GOES-19, scheduled to become the operational GOES-East satellite on 4 April (Friday morning) no earlier than 7 April (updated on 3 April because of a Critical Weather Day), is now on station at 75.2oW and broadcasting data. GOES-16, to be replaced, has been shifted slightly westward; data from both satellites... Read More
Darker shades of red in GOES-16 (GOES-East) Day Snow-Fog RGB images on 31 March 2025 (above) highlighted areas in eastern/northeastern Minnesota, northern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan that received an accrual of ice (from sleet and/or freezing rain/drizzle) as a late-season winter storm moved across the region during the previous 2 days.... Read More
