A selection of several GOES ABI loops during 2022 showcased the diverse range of features observed, which included volcanic ash plumes, hurricanes, convection, fog, smoke, fires, dust and ice. It’s very hard to choose just one event from every month of the year, but the goal here is to show a variety of phenomena and locations that NOAA‘s GOES... Read More
GOES-16 (GOES-East) Nighttime Microphysics RGB and Day Snow-Fog RGB images (above) displayed the nocturnal formation — followed by the daytime dissipation — of shallow fog/stratus across snow-covered (shades of red in Day Snow-Fog RGB imagery) parts of southeastern Saskatchewan, southwestern Manitoba and northern North Dakota on 22 December 2023. With surface air temperatures dropping into the... Read More
The National Weather Service forecast office in Wilmington OH (Twitter link) has noted via tweets during the day on 18 December 2023 (link, link, link) that road visibility conditions are variable in the extreme as snow showers move through Indiana and Ohio. The Day Cloud Phase distinction imagery below at 1701, 1801... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) Day Cloud Phase Distinction RGB images with an overlay of GLM Flash Extent Density (above) showed a glaciating (brighter shades of green) to glaciated (pale shades of yellow) lake effect snow (LES) band streaming inland off Lake Erie on 17 November 2023. There were 4 brief periods of lightning activity seen just south of the Buffalo,... Read More
