Favorable orbital geometry of the Suomi NPP satellite and mostly clear skies over the Great Lakes basin allowed for a nearly complete picture of Great Lakes water temperatures from VIIRS on 10 July (in fact, all Great Lakes were viewed... Read More
The storm in the animation above produced baseball-sized hail in Nebraska (Visible animation is here, courtesy Dan Lindsey from NOAA at CIRA) although MRMS Mesh Hail sizes were “only” in the 1-inch range (that is, nickel to quarter size). How did the ProbSevere product, which product includes MRMS Mesh size as... Read More
Typhoon Neoguri is forecast to move west of Okinawa later today. The visible images above, from COMS-1 (left) and MTSAT-2 (right) show the storm at around 0800 UTC on 7 July 2014. A distinct eye filled with low-level clouds is apparent.Magnified views of the storm center (above; click image to... Read More
04 July Update: a 1-km resolution Terra MODIS 11.0 µm IR image (above) showed the eye of Category 2 Hurricane Arthur making landfall along the coast of North Carolina around 03:13 UTC or 11:15 pm Eastern Time. Arthur was the earliest hurricane to make landfall in North Carolina since records... Read More
