Mostly clear skies over the Great Lakes and a near-Full Moon allowed the Suomi NPP VIIRS Day/Night Band (DNB) imager to record the remaining extent of ice on the five Great Lakes with remarkable clarity at night.Portions of Georgian Bay (Lake Huron), Green Bay (Lake Michigan) and southeastern Lake Superior... Read More
Tests are underway this week to determine the impact of augmented GOES-13 (GOES-East) imager coverage. The animation above shows the coverage for routine scanning on 3 March 2014 between 1645 UTC and 1945 UTC. CONUS, Extended Northern Hemisphere and Full Disk images are included. The Optimized GOES-East schedule is available... Read More
A number of previous blog posts have demonstrated the ability of the water vapor channel to sense surface features when the atmospheric column is cold and/or dry; in this example, the signal of a thin ribbon of high-altitude Sierra... Read More
A strong late-winter cyclone brought significant snows and blizzard conditions to the upper Great Lakes/northern Plains on 21 February 2014 (NWS storm summaries: MPX | DLH | ARX).... Read More
