The largest wildfire in Georgia history started on 16 April, and continued to burn on 20 May and 21 May... Read More

The AWIPS 4-panel display of MODIS imagery (above) shows a portion of west-central Quebec, Canada (between Nemiscau Airport, CYHH, and Chibougamau, CYMT) on 18 May 2007. The 3.7µm Band 20 shortwave IR image (upper left panel) and the 2.1µm Band 7 snow/ice image (upper right panel) both indicate a cluster... Read More

GOES-11 6.7µm “water vapor channel” imagery (above; QuickTime animation) revealed a textbook signature of an occluding cyclone over the Gulf of Alaska on 17 May 2007. A... Read More

An animation of 3-hourly water vapor channel image composites from AWIPS during the entire month of April 2007 (25.5 MB QuickTime animation; 1280×1024 screen resolution required) shows the diverse variety of synoptic scale features that affected the Northern Hemisphere during that... Read More