The High Park Fire was started by lightning early in the morning on 09 June 2012, approximately 15 miles west of Fort Collins (InciWeb). Daily comparisons of 250-meter resolution MODIS true color and false color Red/Green/Blue (RGB) images from the Read More

AWIPS images of GOES-13 6.5 µm water vapor channel data with overlays of CRAS model 500 hPa geopotential height (above; click image to play animation) showed the circulation of an upper-level low over the western Gulf of Mexico coastal region, with a southwesterly flow of moisture aiding... Read More

Parts of the north-central US (namely, western and central North Dakota and South Dakota, and far eastern Montana and Wyoming) received upwards of 0.5 to 1.0 inch of rainfall (Radar estimated precipitation | Regional temperature/precipitation data) in association with a... Read More

At 1645 UTC on 6 June, an Electronics Side Swap occurred for GOES-12 to mitigate the effects of Cycle Slips that were occurring around 0800-1300 UTC each day (See this link for an explanation). No Cycle Slips occurred in the GOES-12 imager data on 7 June; as a result, the images... Read More