The Area Forecast Discussion issued by the National Weather Service forecast office in Fairbanks mentioned the presence of a layer of fog and stratus over parts of the North Slope region of Alaska:NORTHERN ALASKA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FAIRBANKS AK 1258 PM AKDT MON MAR 11 2013 NORTH SLOPE…THE... Read More
An AWIPS image of the MODIS 11.0-3.7 µm IR brightness temperature difference “fog/stratus product” (above) indicated that fog/stratus features were in place across parts of the Southeast US, as well as along and just off the coast of Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina at 07:33 UTC or 2:33 AM... Read More
A comparison of AWIPS images of Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.64 µm visible channel and false-color Red/Green/Blue (RGB) images (above) showed areas of fog and stratus clouds over portions of the Pacific Northwest region of the US, the adjacent offshore waters of the Pacific Ocean, and far southwestern Canada at 20:15... Read More
Two features of interest appeared on McIDAS images of GOES-13 0.63 µm visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) on the morning of 05 December 2012: (1) fingers of valley fog across much of Kentucky, which dissipated as daytime heating and... Read More
