As a low pressure system was located off the US East Coast on 07 February 2026, a so-called “Norlun Trough” (named after meteorologists Nogueira and Lundstedt) or “inverted trough” extended northwestward from the offshore low center to southern New England (above).10 hours of 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Infrared images (below) showed the... Read More
As a strong arctic cold front moved southward across the Gulf of Mexico toward southern Mexico on 04-05 February 2026, the cold front fractured as it moved inland across Mexico’s Isthmus of Tehuantepec — the cold air was then channeled southward through Chivela Pass and emerged as a Tehuano (or... Read More
GOES-19 (GOES-East) SUVI images from the SSEC Geostationary Satellite Imagery site (above) displayed a brief but strong solar flare that occurred on 04 February 2026.A bulletin issued by the Space Weather Prediction Center (below) classified the X-class flare’s intensity as X4.2. ... Read More
48 hours of 5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Water Vapor images that included hourly plots of surface weather type (above) showed the development of a winter storm that produced up to 19.5″ of snowfall and wind gusts as high as 64 mph in eastern North Carolina (storm summary) — and even... Read More
