Cyclone Cleopatra moved through the central Mediterranean Sea, causing flooding in Italy and Sardinia (BBC News Link) with northeastern Sardinia particularly hard hit. The infrared imagery from Meteosat-10, above, and the water vapor imagery, below, shows the slow movement of the entire system within the Mediterranean basin, as well as the strong... Read More
A late-season tornadic outbreak occurred on Sunday November 17th over the Upper Midwest. The animation above shows MODIS Imagery — visible and 11 µm just as the severe weather was erupting over Illinois. Two different sets of severe weather reports are overlain: those... Read More
Mt. Etna, on Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea, erupted early in the morning on Nov 17th just before a Suomi/NPP overpass. The VIIRS Day/Night Band gives a clear view of the volcanic plume (and the light emitted by the lava in the caldera); thermal channels show a distinct hot spot: 360... Read More
The GOES-13 Sounder has been experiencing anomalies that manifest themselves as missing pixels since mid-Summer. The missing pixels apparently arise because of slight fluctuations in the speed of the sounder instrument filter wheel. The number of missing pixels per Sounder image peaked in late September, just after the Equinox, with... Read More
