The GOES-12 satellite (which had experienced a thruster anomaly back on 14 December 2008) was re-activated on the morning of 05 January 2009 (beginning at 15:15 UTC). A comparison of GOES-13 and GOES-12 visible images (above) centered on Tampa, Florida showed that the GOES-12 image... Read More

A freezing drizzle / light freezing rain event occurred across parts of the Upper Midwest on 03 January – 04 January 2009 — an ice accrual of 0.1 to 0.2 inch was reported at... Read More

AWIPS images of the GOES-13 fog/stratus product (above) showed a plume of advection fog curling northwestward across southern Oklahoma on 02 January 2009. A relatively moist low-level air mass with dew points in the 40s F was flowing from northeastern Texas into southeastern Oklahoma (where radiational cooling was allowing surface air temperatures... Read More

Beginning in October 2008,  “high density winds” (also known as Atmospheric Motion Vectors, or AMVs) derived from the Japanese geostationary  Multi-functional Transport Satellite (MTSAT-1R, which is positioned over the Equator at 140º East longitude) were added to the NOAAPORT Satellite Broadcast Network (SBN). National Weather Service... Read More