Hurricane Igor became the 4th hurricane of the season in the Atlantic Basin late in the day on 11 September 2010. GOES-13 10.7 µm IR images from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site (above) displayed an increasingly organized structure to the convection surrounding the center of the storm. Igor existed in an environment of... Read More

A large natural gas explosion occurred in San Bruno, California on the evening of 09 September 2010, which killed 4 people and destroyed 38 homes. McIDAS images of GOES-11 (GOES-West), GOES-15, and Read More

AWIPS images of the 1-km resolution MODIS 6.7 µm water vapor channel and the 4-km resolution GOES-13 water vapor channel data on 09 September 2010 (above) is another great example that demonstrates how an improvement in spatial resolution leads to a dramatic improvement in the ability to detect the total... Read More

AWIPS images of the 1-km resolution MODIS fog/stratus product and the 4-km resolution GOES-11 fog/stratus product (above) revealed the presence of fog and stratus clouds that extended fairly far inland across much of southern California around 06 UTC on 08 September 2010... Read More