October 2008 turned out to be the 4th coldest October on record at Fairbanks, Alaska. About 150 miles (240 km) to the north of Fairbanks, a minimum surface temperature of -40º F (-40º C)  was reported at Chandalar Lake, Alaska on 25 October,... Read More

AWIPS images of the GOES-12 and MODIS fog/stratus product around 07:30 UTC or 3:30 AM local time   (above) told two very different stories regarding the formation of river valley fog across parts of the Northeast US on 07 October 2008. In... Read More

A NOAA-16 AVHRR 11.0 µm IR image (above) showed cold brightness temperatures of -10º to -20º C (violet colors) across much of northwestern Alaska on 30 September 2008. The coldest IR brightness temperatures of around -27º C or -17º F (darker blue colors) corresponded to the higher elevations of the... Read More

Wildfire activity began to increase across the northern portions of Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada on 30 June 2008. GOES-11 visible and 3.9 µm “shortwave IR” images (above) showed a number of thick smoke plumes (lighter gray features on the visible images) drifting southeastward from a large cluster of active fire “hot... Read More