NOAA-20 Imagery shown in this post is Non-Operational and preliminary and undergoing testing.Himawari-8 captured the slow southward progress of Cyclone Marcus along 105 E Longitude between 0900 and 1540 UTC, as shown above. During those six hours, the storm presentation suggested weakening, with a reduction in the central dense overcast... Read More
NOAA-20 Imagery shown in this post is Non-Operational and preliminary and undergoing testing.The imagery above shows a toggle between the Day Night Band Visible (0.70 µm) Imagery and the I05 Infrared (11.45 µm) Imagery on NOAA-20. The strong nor’easter affecting the East Coast of the United States is apparent in the imagery. Strong convection over the warm water south of... Read More
Suomi-NPP True-Color imagery (above, from Real Earth) from 17-20 March 2018 show the break-up of pack ice in eastern Lake Erie. (Clouds with the big Nor-easter prevented views on 21-22 March). Winds at both Erie and Buffalo switched to an easterly component during this time, which may have helped the ice fracture. Silt... Read More
One of the Level-2 products in AWIPS is Sea-Surface Temperature. This is created hourly on the Full Disk scale, and is shown above. The image above toggles between the default enhancement (from -5º to 40º Celsius) to one that is more appropriate for mid-March (-5º to 30º Celsius), and then with the ABI Band 2 (0.64 µm) Visible Image. This allow change allows for features in the... Read More
