An animation of GOES-11 6.7 µm “water vapor channel” imagery (above) shows the development and intensification of a mid-latitude cyclone over the eastern North Pacific Ocean on 13 January 2008. Of particular interest in the water vapor imagery is the appearance of well-defined satellite signatures of an initial warm conveyor... Read More

Tornadoes are very rare in the state of Wisconsin during the month of January; however, severe convection did produce at least two tornadoes that moved across far southeastern Wisconsin during the afternoon hours on 07 January 2008. AWIPS images of the MODIS 11.0... Read More

AWIPS images of global water vapor composites (above) showed a large and powerful Pacific storm that was beginning to impact the US West Coast on 04 January 2008. This storm was tapping a very long plume of high total precipitable water (TPW) originating from the western Pacific Ocean, as seen in an... Read More

A sequence of MODIS true color images (from the SSEC MODIS Direct Broadcast site) covering the period from 27 November 2007 to 02 January 2008 (above) shows the transition from predominantly bare ground (with only isolated patches of thin snow cover) at the end of November to widespread deep snow cover across all... Read More