The Camp Fire started around 1433 UTC or 6:33 AM local time on 08 November 2018 in Northern California; the rapid spread of the fire prompted evacuations and forced road closures. GOES-16 (GOES-East) GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm), “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) and Fire Temperature (above) showed the initial evolution of the... Read More
Suomi NPP VIIRS Infrared Window (11.45 µm) images (above) showed a well-defined banner cloud extending from the Brooks Range in northern Alaska to the Beaufort Sea on 07 November 2018. Overlays of NAM12 model 250 hPa winds revealed the presence of a branch of the polar jet stream flowing northeastward... Read More
A neat circulation feature appeared this morning northwest of Fargo. #ndwx #mnwx pic.twitter.com/AhLRsVSTZQ — NWS Grand Forks (@NWSGrandForks) November 6, 2018 One interesting aspect of this 06 November 2018 mesoscale vortex (which was embedded within a stratus cloud deck) was the fact that a signature of the feature was evident in imagery from... Read More
Strong winds across southern Iran and Pakistan were lofting plumes of blowing sand/dust offshore over the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea during 01 November, 02 November and 03 November 2018 — a sequence of daily composites of True Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images from Terra MODIS, Aqua MODIS and... Read More
