A comparison of MODIS Red/Green/Blue (RGB) “true color” (created using Bands 1/4/3) and “false color” (created using Bands 7/2/1) images from the SSEC MODIS Today site (above) showed a well-defined single lake-effect snow (LES) band running down the length of Lake Michigan on 08 January 2011. On the false color image, snow cover, ice, and glaciated clouds appeared as cyan-colored... Read More
A tornado (which produced EF-2 damage at one point along its path) moved directly across the airport grounds and passed just south of the airport terminal at Jackson, Mississippi (station identifier KJAN) around 23:20 UTC on 31 December 2010 — being such a close call, it was cause for the staff at... Read More
An intense winter storm impacted a great deal of the eastern US on 26 December – 27 December 2010, producing blizzard conditions along much of the East Coast (with Blizzard Warnings issued from Virginia to Maine), total snowfall amounts as high as 32.0 inches at Rahway, New Jersey, and significant accumulations as far south as... Read More
We received the following in an email from Mike Sporer (NOAA/NESDIS):I saw this in a Goes-13 visible loop. There appears to be a "dark cloud" originating near the volcano Popocatepetl. But I have never seen a volcanic plume appear dark in a visible image before. The "dark cloud" also appears... Read More
