Strong southwesterly winds ahead of an advancing cold front caused large areas of blowing dust across parts of the “Four Corners” region of the western US on 16 April 2013. Wind gusts were as high as 68 mph at Winslow, Arizona — and... Read More

A comparison of McIDAS images of 1-km resolution GOES-13 (GOES-East) Visible (0.63 µm) and 4-km resolution Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) data (above) revealed a number of ship tracks in the marine boundary layer stratocumulus cloud deck over the western Atlantic Ocean on 13... Read More

A late-season winter storm brought heavy snowfall to much of the central US — Rapid City, South Dakota (station identifier RAP) set records that included 20.0 inches on 09 April 2013 (most snowfall on a calendar... Read More

A comparison of AWIPS images of Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.64 µm visible channel and false-color Red/Green/Blue (RGB) images (above) showed the extent of ice in the Bering Sea (snow and ice appear as shades of red in the RGB image), along with curved bands of cloud streets due to cold... Read More