The first tropical depression of the 2009 season formed off the US East Coast on 28 May 2009. An AWIPS animation of GOES-12 10.7 µm “IR window” images (above) revealed several bursts of convection as the canopy of... Read More

AWIPS images of the 1-km resolution MODIS 11.0 µm  and the 4-km resolution GOES-12 10.7 µm “IR window” channels (above) showed a cluster of very cold cloud top temperatures (-88º C on MODIS, and -82º C on GOES, violet colors) associated with deep convection over the northwestern Gulf of Mexico... Read More

A west-to-east oriented stationary front was draped across the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes states on 19 May 2009. AWIPS images of the GOES-12 10.7 µm IR window channel (above) showed that there was a general lack of cloudiness in the vicinity... Read More

The GOES-11 satellite was once again placed into Super Rapid Scan Operations (SRSO) on 13 May 2009, providing images as frequently as every 1 minute during portions of the late afternoon and early evening hours. The GOES-11 visible channel imagery (above; also available as a QuickTime... Read More