The National Weather Service at Milwaukee/Sullivan posted a nice animation of MODIS true color imagery (using the  AWIPS “MODIS True Color Imagery Viewer” that Jordan Gerth developed as part of the CIMSS/SSEC Read More

A side-by-side comparison of GOES-12 and GOES-13 visible images (above) shows a well-defined lake-effect cloud band that was oriented generally north-to-south across Lake Michigan on 04 February 2009. This narrow cloud band was producing heavy snow as it moved inland over far... Read More

MODIS visible + snow/ice images AWIPS images of the MODIS visible channel and the 2.1 µm near-IR “snow/ice discrimination” channel (above) showed the areal coverage of surface snowfall and ice accrual across much of the southern Plains on 28 January 2009. Many... Read More

GOES-13 visible channel images (above) displayed a beautiful example of ducted internal gravity wave clouds over parts of Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Michigan during the daylight hours on 27 January 2009. The main linear “wave train” feature became obscured by a veil... Read More