Portions of West Texas received a light accumulation of ice from freezing rain/drizzle/fog during the daytime and evening hours on 02 January 2019. On the following morning prior to melting, in a comparison of GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and Near-Infrared “Snow/Ice” (1.61 µm) images (above) the semi-transparent glaze of ice that covered... Read More

* GOES-17 images shown here are preliminary and non-operational *GOES-17 Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 µm) images with an overlay of 250 hPa wind isotachs from the GFS90 model (above) showed a string of disturbances (surface analysis) along the axis of a 180-knot “Japan Jet” across the North Pacific Ocean on 02 January... Read More

GOES-16 (GOES-East) Near-Infrared “Snow/Ice” (1.61 µm) images (above) revealed a darker swath — oriented southwest to northeast, from central South Dakota to central Minnesota — highlighting areas which received an accrual of ice (from freezing rain/drizzle) during a 30 December – 31 December 2018 mixed precipitation event (surface analyses). Light to moderate Freezing Rain was... Read More

* GOES-17 images shown here are preliminary and non-operational *A mid-latitude cyclone moved northward over the far western Aleutian Islands late in the day on 28 December 2018, intensifying to a Hurricane Force low pressure system by 06 UTC on 29 December (surface analyses). A comparison of GOES-17 and GOES-15 (GOES-West)... Read More