JetBlue Flight 429 encountered severe turbulence over south-central South Dakota around 0115 UTC on 12 August (7:15 pm local time on 11 August) 2016, which caused injuries to 22 passengers and 2 crew members (media story). The aircraft (flying from Boston MA to Sacramento CA) had to be diverted to Rapid City... Read More
GOES-13 (GOES-East) Water Vapor (6.5 µm) images (above) showed the intensification of a strong cyclone over Hudson Bay, Canada during the 09 August – 10 August 2016 period; the cyclone deepened to a central pressure of 980 hPa (28.94″ of mercury) at 06 UTC on 10 August.Daily composites of Suomi NPP VIIRS true-color Red/Green/Blue... Read More
1-minute SRSO-R GOES-14 Visible (0.63 µm) images (above; also available as a 265 Mbyte animated GIF) showed the development of severe thunderstorms which produced large hail and damaging winds (SPC storm reports) in southeastern North Dakota, northeastern South Dakota and far western Minnesota on 10 August 2016. SPC noted a region of enhanced... Read More
A 2-panel comparison of GOES-13 (GOES-East) Visible (0.63 µm) and Infrared Window (10.7 µm) images (above) showed a band of thunderstorms oriented southwest-to-northeast across northern Virginia and northern Maryland late in the day on 30 July 2016. Cells within this band produced very heavy rainfall and extreme flash flooding at Ellicott City,... Read More
