AWIPS images of 4-km resolution GOES-13 10.7 µm IR channel images with overlays of surface reports and SPC storm reports (above; click image to play animation) showed the development of thunderstorms across the Panhandle region of Texas on 14... Read More

Hat tip to Chad Gravelle (CIMSS), who asked about the curious pattern of trailing edge cloud clearing across South Carolina on the morning of 28 November 2012. Given that the etiology of these elongated cloud clearing line features is unknown at this point,... Read More

Dense fog was a factor in causing a multiple-vehicle accident (an estimated 140 vehicles involved; 2 fatalities; dozens of injuries requiring transport to hospitals) along Interstate 10 between Houston and Beaumont in eastern Texas on the morning of 22 November 2012. The GOES-R Instrument... Read More

Cold air flowing southeastward across the Great Salt Lake in Utah had enough of a fetch over the warm waters to help set up a well-defined lake-effect snow (LES) band that produced several inches of snowfall downwind of the lake at Salt Lake City on 11 November 2012. The LES band could... Read More