It’s a sure sign that Summer can’t be far off when Hudson Bay in Canada finally begins to lose its ice coverage — and a comparison of MODIS true color (channels 01/04/03) and false color (channels 01/07/07) Red/Green/Blue (RGB) images from the SSEC... Read More

An interesting large “dark feature” showed up on AWIPS images of MODIS visible channel data over Lake Michigan on 04 June 2009 (above). This dark feature appeared to be shifting slowly southward during the 105-minute period between the time of... Read More

An Air France Airbus A330-200 — Flight #447 en route from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Paris, France — crashed in the tropical Atlantic Ocean on 01 June 2009 (surface analysis). Shortly after the last radio contact about 350 miles (565 km) northeast of Natal, Brazil... Read More

The first tropical depression of the 2009 season formed off the US East Coast on 28 May 2009. An AWIPS animation of GOES-12 10.7 µm “IR window” images (above) revealed several bursts of convection as the canopy of... Read More