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Archive: Sep 2011

Fires across eastern Texas

McIDAS images of GOES-13 3.9 µm shortwave IR and 0.63 µm visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed the fire hot spot (dark black pixels) and large smoke plume associated with the Bastrop County fire complex in eastern Texas on Read More

Tropical Storm Lee

McIDAS images of 4-km resolution GOES-15 10.7 µm IR data (above; click image to play animation) showed the transition of Tropical Depression #13 into Tropical Storm Lee in the northern Gulf of Mexico on 02 September 2011. Deep convection persisted within the eastern semi-circle of the system, with large areas exhibiting cloud... Read More