According to the NWS Chicago, Rockford Illinois had their second-latest snowfall on record during the morning of 16 May 2014. AWIPS images of 4-km resolution GOES-13 6.5 µm water vapor channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed the distinct signature of the center... Read More

With an ongoing extreme to exceptional drought, hot temperatures (daily high temperatures along the coastal areas as high as 106º F at John Wayne Airport) combined with strong offshore Santa Ana winds (gusting as high as 87 mph at Big Black Mountain) conspired to create an environment favorable for wildfires... Read More

An AWIPS comparison of nighttime Suomi NPP VIIRS and POES AVHRR IR brightness temperature difference “fog/stratus product” images (above) exhibited signals of fog and/or stratus forming in river valleys straddling the West Virginia and Virginia border on 13 May 2014.The GOES-14 satellite continued... Read More

The GOES-14 satellite continued to be in Super Rapid Scan Operations for GOES-R (SRSOR) mode on 11 May 2014, capturing the development of thunderstorms along a dryline that stretched from the Texas Panhandle into far southwestern Kansas. As... Read More