McIDAS images of MTSAT-2 daytime 0.675 µm visible channel data and night-time 10.8 µm IR channel data (above; click image to play animation; also available as an MP4 animation) showed a monsoon low which exhibited a well-defined circulation for several days as it... Read More
A comparison of AWIPS images of Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.64 µm visible channel data with the corresponding false-color “snow-vs-cloud discrimination” Red/Green/Blue (RGB) product (above) revealed numerous northwest-to-southeast oriented mesoscale bands of snow on the ground (varying shades of red on the RGB image) across much of Iowa extending into northern... Read More
United Airlines Flight 89 enroute from Newark, New Jersey to Beijing, China encountered severe turbulence at an altitude of 33,000 feet over Vermont (pilot report) around 18:31 UTC on 16 January 2014, which injured 5 flight attendants... Read More
An extended period of hot, dry weather led to the development of multiple large bushfires across parts of southeastern Australia, some of which began to produce pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) clouds during the 15-16 January 2014 period. McIDAS images of MTSAT-2 0.68 µm visible channel and 3.75 µm shortwave IR channel data... Read More
