Strong southwesterly winds over the southern and central Rocky Mountains led to the development of mountain waves downwind of the higher terrain in Colorado and New Mexico on 10 October 2008. A distinct mountain wave signature was seen on 6.7 µm water... Read More

A patch of stratus cloud was easily identifiable on AWIPS images of the GOES-12 and MODIS fog/stratus product (above) across parts of eastern Saskatchewan and western Manitoba in central Canada on 02 October 2008. Note how much sharper the cloud edge appeared... Read More

Tropical Storm Hanna exhibited some interesting satellite imagery features on 02 September 2008. GOES-13 IR images (above) displayed a period of transverse banding during the 01-05 UTC period — this transverse banding is a satellite signature of potential turbulence (although  no aircraft... Read More

A comparison of GOES-11 and GOES-13 visible images (above) showed that some smoke aloft (from wildfires that had been burning in parts of the northern Rocky Mountains) was drifting over the Foothills region of eastern Colorado during the morning hours on 28... Read More