It’s a sure sign that Summer can’t be far off when Hudson Bay in Canada finally begins to lose its ice coverage — and a comparison of MODIS true color (channels 01/04/03) and false color (channels 01/07/07) Red/Green/Blue (RGB) images from the SSEC... Read More

An Air France Airbus A330-200 — Flight #447 en route from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Paris, France — crashed in the tropical Atlantic Ocean on 01 June 2009 (surface analysis). Shortly after the last radio contact about 350 miles (565 km) northeast of Natal, Brazil... Read More

An unusually-large derecho event formed over Kansas during the pre-dawn hours on 08 May 2009, and then moved rapidly eastward across Missouri and Illinois during the morning hours. GOES-12 10.7 µm IR window images (above) showed the large areal coverage of cold... Read More

AWIPS images of the 1-km resolution MODIS 6.5 µm and the 4-km resolution GOES-12 6.5 µm “water vapor channel” images (above) demonstrate the advantage of better spatial resolution for the detection of small-scale features such as the mountain waves that had formed over much of New Mexico and the adjacent... Read More