The remnants of Hurricane Ike moved rapidly northeastward across the Ohio River Valley region on 14 September 2008. AWIPS images of the GOES-12 visible channel (above) with an overlay of METAR surface reports showed that a large number of locations reported very... Read More
Hurricane Ike (satellite montage) made landfall as a Category 2 storm during the early hours of 13 September 2008. The comparison of GOES-12 and GOES-13 10.7 µm IR images (above)... Read More
GOES-11 continued in Super Rapid Scan Operations (SRSO) mode on 11 September 2008, with visible imagery (above) showing additional convective bursts around the eye of the storm.GOES-12 water vapor channel imagery (below) revealed an interesting series of middle- to upper-tropospheric “gravity waves”... Read More
The GOES-11 (GOES-West) satellite was placed into Super Rapid Scan Operations (SRSO) mode on 10 September 2008, allowing imagery at 1-minute intervals to monitor Hurricane Ike in the Gulf of Mexico. Using the visible channel imagery (above; Read More
