The GOES-O satellite was launched at 22:51 UTC on 27 June 2009 from Cape Canaveral, Florida (station identifier XMR). GOES-12 visible images (above) showed a portion of the rocket plume on the 23:02 UTC image (some ground-based photos of the launch are available here). This satellite will become GOES-14 after... Read More
GOES-12 visible images (above) showed a nice example of convective initiation along an outflow boundary from thunderstorms a few hours earlier across northeastern Iowa on 25 June 2009. This new convection that developed along the outflow boundary produced hail of 1.5 inch in diameter and damaging winds in extreme northern Illinois (just... Read More
A small “dry swirl” feature (yellow color enhancement) was seen on AWIPS images of the GOES-12 6.5 µm water vapor channel (above) off the East Coast of the US on 24 June – 25 June 2009. A comparison of a GOES-12 water vapor image with the corresponding GOES-12 sounder Total Column Ozone product... Read More
Wildfire activity was beginning to increase across parts of Quebec, Canada on 24 June 2009 — and AWIPS images of the MODIS 3.7 µm shortwave IR channel (above) revealed a number of large fire “hot spots” (red to yellow color enhancement) that were increasing in areal coverage between 16:29 UTC and 18:14... Read More
