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Archive: Wed Mar 2010

Cirrus detection from satellite

The visible imagery loop from GOES-12, above, shows cirrus clouds around southern Wisconsin at 1315 UTC on 16 March (1st image in loop), and at 2215 UTC on 16 March (last image in loop), but relatively few at 1615 UTC (middle image). In contrast, the infrared imagery loop (here), indicates... Read More

Snow in the Northeast

A series of snowstorms this winter, sometimes chronicled here in the CIMSS blog, have left a hefty snowpack over the Mountains of New England and New York. The series of storms has also meant abundant cloudiness, but on March 16th, clear skies prevailed as the Aqua satellite, with a MODIS... Read More