On the morning of 17 July 2008, we received the following email from Ron Miller at the National Weather Service forecast office in Spokane, Washington:Can you tell... Read More

A GOES-12 IR image from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site (above) showed Tropical Storm Bertha continuing to linger over the western Atlantic Ocean on 16 July 2008 — this storm first became “Tropical Depression #2” over the eastern Atlantic, thirteen days earlier (on 03 July).GOES-12 visible images with an overlay of SeaWinds data from the QuikSCAT... Read More

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