After passing over Key West on 18 August, Tropical Storm Fay made landfall along the Gulf Coast of the Florida peninsula on 19 August 2008. GOES-12 IR imagery from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site (above) showed that Fay... Read More

Moderate to extreme drought conditions across much of North Dakota during the Spring and Summer of 2008 had caused the water levels at Long Lake (a small  alkaline lake located east-southeast  of Bismarck) to become very low — as a result, bright white “salt flats” began to grow in size, becoming large enough to be... Read More

The Kasatochi Volcano (located in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska) experienced a series of eruptions on 07-08 August 2008. A comparison of visible channel images from the MTSAT-1R and GOES-11 satellites (above) shows the initial sequence of volcanic plumes from 2 very... Read More

03 August 2008 marked the 22nd  consecutive day of daily high temperatures of 90º F or higher at Denver, Colorado (the old record was 18 consecutive days, set back in 1874 and 1901). AWIPS images of the MODIS Land Surface Temperature (LST) product (above) revealed daytime LST values as high... Read More