A combination of fog and smoke reduced visibilities along I-95 S in southern Volusia County Florida. A series of fatal crashes (news report; this tweet suggests the accident was near Florida State Route 442; second tweet). News report suggest the smoke that helped seed the dense fog resulted from controlled burns. The Band... Read More
The image above (from 2100 UTC on 28 February 2022) and below (from 0930 UTC on 1 March 2022) toggle between low-level estimates of 1000-mb dewpoint and GOES-16 IFR Probability fields. Is there a general relationship between the two? At first blush, it does seem like the IFR Probability fields... Read More
RealEarth has added GOES-17 IFR Probability Fields to its product suite (GOES-16 IFR Probability fields have been available in RealEarth for some time). They can be accessed most simply by entering ‘IFR Probabilty’ in the RealEarth search box. At present only the ‘PACUS’ domain (the GOES-17 equivalent of the GOES-16... Read More
The suite of nighttime GOES-16 (GOES-East) Fog / Low Stratus products — Marginal Visual Flight Rules (MVFR) Probability, Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) Probability, Low Instrument Flight Rules (LIFR) Probability, and Cloud Thickness — along with the subsequent daytime “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) showed the increasing areal coverage of vertically shallow (Cloud Thickness... Read More
