A 250-meter resolution Terra MODIS true-color Red/Green/Blue (RGB) image from the SSEC MODIS Today site (above) revealed the widespread orange hue of Autumn tree colors over parts of northeastern Minnesota, northern Wisconsin, and the western Upper Peninsula of Michigan on 11 October 2015.A comparison with the corresponding MODIS false-color RGB image (below)... Read More
The rocking animation* above shows central Pacific Hurricane Oho forming south of Hawai’i and then moving quickly northeast; moisture associated with the remains of the storm is now moving onshore in British Columbia and Alaska Southeast. It is unusual for central Pacific Hurricanes to influence directly the weather in the Pacific... Read More
Historic rainfalls associated with tropical moisture and a surface low pressure system inundated portions of South and North Carolina over the weekend. During the first four days of October, Charleston SC had 17+” of rain, Downtown Charleston had more than 16″, Columbia had 11″, Myrtle Beach had 14″. In fact, new records were... Read More
Hurricane Joaquin moved slowly through the eastern Bahamas on 1 and 2 October 2015. ASCAT data from 1356 UTC, above, shows rain-flagged values near 90 knots not far from the storm center (Joaquin is a potent Category 4 Hurricane; its strongest winds are confined to within about 50 miles of the center).Joaquin is embedded... Read More
