The past few days have brought devastating rain and flooding to the Australian state of Queensland, in the country’s northeast. The community of Paluma received more than 1.4 meters (4.5 feet) of rain over the weekend, and damage to roads and bridges carried out by the torrents of water have... Read More

High spatial resolution satellites like the Landsat series operated by NASA and the US Geological Survey, or Sentinel operated by the European Space Agency, are often used for land process investigations. Their very high spatial resolution comes at the cost of less frequent overpasses over specific locations, and so they... Read More

For the second day in a row, residents of the southern United States have awoken to dense fog advisories. A view of the continental United States surface map shows that overall, there is very weak synoptic forcing across the south, which results in calm winds and little mixing or advection.... Read More

On the morning of Sunday, November 7th, numerous elongated hole punch clouds were visible over the Upper Midwest, including parts of Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, and Minnesota. Also called fall streak clouds, these are a relatively rare phenomenon that form because of the unusual properties of cloud droplets.While most people know... Read More