AWIPS images of the 4-km resolution GOES-12 fog/stratus and Low Cloud Base products and the 1-km resolution MODIS fog/stratus product (above) showed fingers of river valley fog that had formed over parts of southern Missouri and northern Arkansas at around 08 UTC (3am local time) on Read More

Blog reader Michael Lawson wrote:Hi, I am a meteorologist working with Meridian Environmental Technology in Grand Forks, ND. A co-worker noticed a gravity wave feature in the visible over northern Indiana/northwest Ohio during the afternoon of September 15, 2008. Clouds moving into the feature would dissipate then reform once they... Read More

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