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Archive: Sep 2008

Gravity wave over Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan

Blog reader Michael Lawson wrote:Hi, I am a meteorologist working with Meridian Environmental Technology in Grand Forks, ND. A co-worker noticed a gravity wave feature in the visible over northern Indiana/northwest Ohio during the afternoon of September 15, 2008. Clouds moving into the feature would dissipate then reform once they... Read More

Remnants of Hurricane Ike

The remnants of Hurricane Ike moved rapidly northeastward across the Ohio River Valley region on 14 September 2008. AWIPS images of the GOES-12 visible channel (above) with an overlay of METAR surface reports showed that a large number of locations reported very... Read More

Hurricane Ike

GOES-11 continued in Super Rapid Scan Operations (SRSO) mode on 11 September 2008, with visible imagery (above) showing additional convective bursts around the eye of the storm.GOES-12 water vapor channel imagery (below) revealed an interesting series of middle- to upper-tropospheric “gravity waves”... Read More