The GOES-19 view of the Northern Hemisphere on the morning of 3 June 2025 showed enhanced aerosol optical depth (AOD) across much of its domain. Large regions of elevated AOD are ceen in the eastern half of the continental United States extending out into the western Atlantic Ocean, while the... Read More
Tens of thousands of baseball fans took to Chicago’s North Side on the evening of 14 May 2025 to watch a Major League Baseball game between the Miami Marlins and the Chicago Cubs. Fans of the Cubs might not remember much about the game itself (the Marlins won 3–1 with... Read More
Continuing this blog’s recent theme of discussing recent events in West Texas, a tornadic supercell has formed near Muleshoe, Texas, in the panhandle region near the Texas / New Mexico border. Both CONUS and mesoscale sector scans from GOES-19 well-captured the initiation and further development of this storm.The late morning surface analysis (1500 UTC,... Read More
A large severe weather outbreak took place across the south central United States on Wednesday 2 April 2025. The NWS Storm Prediction Center (SPC) anticipated a significant weather event in the region, having predicted an enhanced risk of severe weather as early as Monday 31 March and a rare high risk the night before the event.... Read More
