An animation of 8-km resolution GOES-11 6.7 µm “water vapor channel” images (above; click image to play animation) revealed a mid-latitude cyclone over the eastern North Pacific Ocean on 28 January – 29 January 2011 —... Read More

The third major storm  of the 2010/2011 winter season  (storm #1 | storm #2) impacted much of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast states on 26 January 2011 – 27 January 2011. An AWIPS image  of Read More

The North Slope region of far northern Alaska had been abnormally cold for a number of days in late January 2011: for example, Barrow had minimum temperatures of -43ºF / -42ºC and -45ºF / -43ºC on 23 January and 24 January, respectively (the normal low temperature on those days is... Read More

A major surge of arctic air from Canada helped to produce the first surface air temperatures of -40º F (-40º C) or colder over the Lower 48 states during the Winter of 2010/2011 — the coldest official minimum temperature was -46º F (-43º C) at International Falls, Minnesota on the... Read More