A 250-meter resolution MODIS true color Red/Green/Blue (RGB) image from the SSEC MODIS Today site (above) showed the areal coverage of lake-effect snow cover downwind of Lake Erie on 11 December 2011. Snow depths across this particular region were generally small, in the 1 to 4 inch range. ... Read More
AWIPS images of the 1-km resolution MODIS fog/stratus product (above) showed areas of freezing fog that were persisting across parts of the Pacific Northwest region of the US during the pre-dawn hours on 10 December 2011. This freezing fog was causing a few traffic accidents on roadways across the region.On the previous... Read More
At 15:46 UTC on 06 December 2011, GOES-15 replaced GOES-11 as the operational GOES-West satellite. GOES-11 (launched in 2000, and operational since 2006) was one of the older GOES-I/J/K/L/M series of satellites (GOES-8/9/10/11/12), while GOES-15 (launched in 2010; Read More
The normal operational GOES scanning schedule provides one complete Full Disk image every 3 hours (at 00 UTC, 03 UTC, 06 UTC, etc). However, as part of the final testing of GOES-15 the satellite was placed into a mode that provided one Full Disk scan every 30 minutes for a... Read More
