A Meteosat-9 visible image at 18:00 UTC (above) showed the presence of a great deal of airborne Saharan dust over the North Atlantic Ocean on 30 June 2009. Due to a favorable forward scattering angle, this dust appeared as a large “hazy” feature between Africa and South America. Also note... Read More
A large outbreak of wildfires occurred across parts of Texas and Oklahoma on 09 April 2009. GOES-13 visible images (above) showed several very large smoke plumes drifting eastward across far northern Texas and far southern Oklahoma during the afternoon hours. These fires... Read More
GOES-13 visible channel images (above) showed widespread blowing dust across much of northeastern Arizona on 03 April 2009. Surface winds in that region gusted to 91 mph at Meteor Crater and 68 mph at Winslow. Note that the thick pall of airborne dust also appeared to be having the effect... Read More
Strong winds were producing plumes of blowing dust across parts of southeastern New Mexico and the Texas panhandle region on 14 December 2008 — this blowing dust was reducing surface visibility to 1 mile at Lubbock, Texas (station identifier KLBB). AWIPS images of the MODIS visible, “cirrus detection”, 3.7 µm shortwave IR,... Read More
