Slow-moving Tropical Storm Ernesto produced winds of up to 76 mph and rainfall totals of 10-11 inches (map of rainfall totals) in the Norfolk/Virginia Beach VA area during the past 1-2 days (below, right), and caused widespread flooding problems across much... Read More
The GOES-10 satellite has been placed into Super Rapid Scan Operations (SRSO) mode while the satellite is being re-positioned to support Southern Hemisphere operations this Fall. While in SRSO, the imagery is available at 1-minute intervals for certain portions of each hour. This frequent imaging schedule lets us view the... Read More
GOES-12 “water vapor channel” (6.5 µm) imagery on 28 August 2006 showed a rather strong moisture gradient in the southcentral US, oriented along a cold frontal boundary. In the color enhancement applied to an AWIPS water vapor image (above), dry air is denoted by orange to yellow shades, while increasing moisture is... Read More
