Just 11 days after deadly Cyclone Nargis made its devastating landfall in Myanmar (also known as Burma), Meteosat-7 IR imagery from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site (above) showed a new tropical disturbance that was moving northwestward across the Irawaddy Delta region of Myanmar on 13 May 2008. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center issued the following Tropical... Read More
AWIPS images of the MODIS visible channel along with the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and Land Surface Temperature (LST) products (above) depicted the areal extent of the Mississippi Alluvial Valley (MAV) on 12 May 2008. This physiographic feature represents the historical flood plain of the lower Mississippi River, which stretches from... Read More
The severe thunderstorm that was producing a significant long-track tornado (approximately 75 miles long, and around 1 mile wide at times) across parts of northeastern Oklahoma and southwestern Missouri on 10 May 2008 exhibited a classic “enhanced-v” signature on both GOES-12 and NOAA-16 IR imagery. The coldest cloud top brightness temperature values... Read More
On the morning of 08 May 2008, we received the following email from David Zaff, Science and Operations Officer at the National Weather Service Forecast Office at Buffalo NY:The NWS BUF office was marveling over the fine line starting from below the thumb of MI through Toronto and along the northern edge... Read More
