McIDAS images of GOES-13 0.63 µm visible channel data (above) revealed several plumes of blowing dust originating in northern Mexico, which then drifted northeastward across parts of Texas and New Mexico during the afternoon hours on 28 November 2010. At El Paso,... Read More

Winds gusting in excess of 50 mph across parts of eastern Idaho on 05 September 2010 created a plume of blowing dust which could be seen on AWIPS images of the MODIS 0.65 µm visible channel, the MODIS 3.7 µm shortwave IR channel, and the MODIS 11.0 µm IR channel... Read More

Wildfires had been burning across portions of the northern prairie provinces of Canada during early to mid July, and GOES-13 visible images (above) showed that a thick plume of smoke was drawn southward and eastward across the Upper Midwest states on 15 July 2010.A POES AVHRR false color Red/Green/Blue (RGB) image (below)... Read More

There were three items of interest to discuss that exhibited interesting satellite signatures on 13 July 2010. The first feature was a middle-tropospheric vortex that was spinning off the coast of California, as seen on AWIPS images of 8-km resolution GOES-11 6.7... Read More