A significant ice storm affected parts of extreme southeastern Kansas and southern Missouri on 11–12 February 2008, leaving an accrual of ice more than 1 inch thick in parts of Missouri. AWIPS images of the visible and 1.6µm near-IR “snow/ice” channels (above) revealed the extent of the coverage of snow and ice that remained a day later on 13 February 2008. Note the very dark... Read More

A comparison of Terra and Aqua MODIS true color images on 13 February 2008 (above) shows that thick ice had formed along the nearshore waters of southwestern Lake Michigan; cold arctic air over the region a few days earlier (the daily maximum/minimum temperatures at Chicago O’Hare on 10 February were +1ºF/-4ºF) led... Read More