A cold frontal gravity wave along the East Coast?
Lee-side frontal gravity waves are occasionally seen to the east of the Rocky Mountains, moving southward across the High Plains of the central US (for example, see 03 April 2007,... Read More
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Actinae in the North Pacific Ocean
AVHRR false color imagery (above; viewed using Google Earth) and GOES-11 visible channel imagery (below) revealed a family of cyclonic vorticies propagating westward across the eastern North Pacific Ocean on 29 March... Read More
More snow in the Upper Midwest
The winter of 2007/2008 has already produced record snowfall (100.7 inches at Madison, Wisconsin, and 76.2 inches at Dubuque, Iowa) or near-record snowfall (107.0 inches at Grand Rapids, Michigan, and 98.9 inches at Milwaukee, Wisconsin) over portions of the Upper Midwest region;Â on 27 March 2008, another 2-6 inches of snow fell... Read More
Warm air ahead of a cold frontal boundary
A cold frontal boundary was moving southward across the central and southern Plains on 27 March 2008. AWIPS images of the MODIS visible channel (above) showed that the leading edge of the front was generally cloud-free as it moved through the Oklahoma and Texas panhandle regions.AWIPS images of the GOES-12 3.9µm... Read More
