A Terra MODIS true color image from the SSEC MODIS Today site (above) revealed a swath of fresh snow cover across parts of Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia on 20 January 2008. Snowfall amounts in the state of Alabama (which fell on the previous day) were as high as 5.8 inches near Verbena, 5.0 inches at Orrville, and 4.0... Read More

The coldest arctic air of the 2007/2008 winter season (so far) settled in over the Great Lakes region on 19-20 January 2008. Most reporting stations in Wisconsin experienced a daytime maximum temperature below 0ºF on 19 January, with the coldest overnight minimum temperature on 20 January of -34ºF at Nekoosa in central Wisconsin. As this cold air streamed eastward across Lake Michigan, ice began to form along... Read More

An animation of GOES-11 6.7 µm “water vapor channel” imagery (above) shows the development and intensification of a mid-latitude cyclone over the eastern North Pacific Ocean on 13 January 2008. Of particular interest in the water vapor imagery is the appearance of well-defined satellite signatures of an initial warm conveyor... Read More

Tornadoes are very rare in the state of Wisconsin during the month of January; however, severe convection did produce at least two tornadoes that moved across far southeastern Wisconsin during the afternoon hours on 07 January 2008. AWIPS images of the MODIS 11.0... Read More