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Archive: Jan 2012

Blowing dust in New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma

A large outbreak of blowing dust developed in the wake of a cold frontal passage across parts of New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma on 22 January 2012. At Lubbock, Texas winds gusted to 60 mph, and surface visibility was reduced to 0.5 mile. The strongest wind gust was 77 mph,... Read More

A comparison of GOES, AVHRR, MODIS, and VIIRS IR images

AWIPS images of 4-km resolution GOES-13 10.7 µm IR data (above; click image to play animation) showed a variety of cloud features across the central and southern US between 07:01 UTC and 09:30 UTC on 19 January 2012. In particular, note (1) the darker gray (warmer) low clouds streaming northward... Read More