MODIS true color imagery (above) and false color imagery (below) from 22 December 2006 reveals the widespread snow cover resulting from the major winter storm that moved across the central US on 20–Read More

The long nights of winter can be ideal for the formation of fog. Clear, calm conditions are conducive to strong radiational cooling, and if the cooling occurs over a moist surface, cooling to the dewpoint is likely and fog may be a result. Once fog has formed over a location,... Read More

During Day 2 (08 December 2006) of the GOES-13 post-launch NOAA science test, a cold and dry air mass was moving eastward over the southern Great Lakes region; “water vapor channel” images from the GOES-13 and... Read More

Occluded strong systems will occasionally display features that suggest the presence of a TROWAL, or a TROugh of Warm air ALoft. The midwestern snowstorm of 1 December 2006 was no exception. The pressure analysis below over the Infrared (channel 4 from GOES 12) data, which... Read More