July 2008 marks the 2-year anniversary of the beginning of the CIMSS / SSEC effort to provide MODIS imagery and products in AWIPS. Mostly cloud-free conditions over Wisconsin on 14... Read More

A mesoscale convective system (MCS) moved southward across southern Wisconsin during the morning of 11 July 2008, producing a well-defined bowing segment along the southern flank. As the MCS continued to decay into the late morning hours, the signature of a weak Mesoscale Convective Vortex or MCV (see Interesting Clouds on Satellite: “Mesoscale Convective Vortex” from the NWS... Read More

Mostly cloud-free skies in the wake of a cold frontal passage (MODIS true color image) allowed some interesting temperature signatures to be observed across the Upper Midwest and western Great Lakes states on 09 July 2008. An AWIPS image of the MODIS Land Surface Temperature (LST) product (above) revealed significantly warmer LST values (90-95º F,... Read More

Many large wildfires continued to burn in parts of California on 08 July 2008. A comparison of MODIS false color and true color images from the SSEC MODIS Today site (above) demonstrated the use of the false color imagery for determining the areal coverage of burn scars in the Los Padres National Forest south of... Read More