A meteogram of surface observations at Pago Pago International Airport, above, shows a period of heavy rain and strong winds between 1400 and 2300 UTC on 26 May 2023. The strong winds had a big affect on waves at Aunu’u, as shown below (imagery from this website; click here to see the... Read More
What products are available in the Arctic in between SAR observations? Consider the composite image above, showing RADARSAT-2 SAR ice concentration at 0453 UTC on 22 February 2023 over/around Saint Matthew Island (direct link to footprint here at the STAR SAR Wind site*) and an RADARSAT Constellation Mission-3 (RCM3) image at at 0546 UTC on 22... Read More
A modest snow storm affected southern/central Wisconsin on 9 February (WFO ARX story), depositing 6-12″ of snow in a band from northeast Iowa to central Lake Michigan, as shown above: the snowfall caused an obvious change in the Suomi NPP imagery between 08 February and 10 February 2023, shown above using imagery taken from the... Read More
GOES-16 (GOES-East) Air Mass RGB images (above) included contours of RAP40 model PV 1.5 Pressure — and showed a Hurricane Force low pressure that had rapidly intensified as it moved northeastward off the US East Coast (surface analyses) on 06 February 2023. The PV 1.5 surface (which represents the dynamic tropopause) descended to the 500 hPa pressure level at... Read More
