A strong and persistent ridge of high pressure aloft (GOES water vapor image animation) along with a northward push of unusually warm air behind a poleward-moving frontal boundary (GOES... Read More

A night-time AWIPS image of the Suomi NPP VIIRS IR brightness temperature difference (BTD) “fog/stratus product” at 08:47 UTC or 1:47 AM local time (above) displayed an expansive area of fog and stratus cloud across much of the central and southern Rocky Mountains region on Read More

An AWIPS-1 image of GOES-13 6.5 µm water vapor channel data (above) showed a large storm that was affecting much of the eastern US during the 26 November – 27 November 2013 period. Arctic air surging... Read More

AWIPS II images of 375-meter resolution Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.64 µm visible channel data (above) showed the growth of new ice immediately offshore in the northwestern portion of Hudson Bay, Canada during the 17 November – Read More