Atmospheric Bores form in stable air and create horizontal cloud bands that propagate perpendicular to the along-band direction. The feature seen above in GOES-13 visible imagery formed in stable air south of a High Pressure system that pushed a backdoor cold front into New England (surface analyses). The southern edge of... Read More
GOES-13 (GOES-East) 0.63 µm visible channel images (click image to play animation; also available as an MP4 movie file) showed the hazy signature of a cloud of thick blowing dust moving southward across southern Nevada and parts of southern California, along and behind a strong cold... Read More
Severe thunderstorms developed in the vicinity of a quasi-stationary frontal boundary which stretched from northeastern Oklahoma into northern Arkansas and southern Missouri late in the day on 25 March 2015. A plot of the SPC... Read More
A total solar eclipse occurred on 20 March before sunrise over the USA. Its appearance on visible imagery from Meteosat-10 was documented here and here. Did GOES-13 also view this event? The imagery above, half-hourly from 0845 through 0945 UTC, shows evidence of darkening (the lunar shadow) initially near 40... Read More
