The Suomi/NPP Day/Night Band “nightime visible” image early on 2 January captured a rope cloud extending over the central Gulf of Mexico southwestward from the northwest Florida panhandle. Rope Clouds are handy features because they accurately place the location of the cold front at the leading edge of the rope... Read More
A striking display of the aurora borealis was seen on AWIPS images of Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.7 µm Day/Night Band data across Alaska (above) and across northern Canada (below) during the night-time (pre-dawn) hours on 17 December 2012. The corresponding VIIRS 11.45 µm IR channel images are also shown, to... Read More
A rare November tornado moved through Taranto, (YouTube video, AccuWeather blog entry) in southern Italy, on Wednesday November 28th. A loop of 10.8 µm Meteosat-9 imagery (above) shows the development of an overshooting top in a thunderstorm that is moving over Taranto between 0900 and 0915 UTC (Note that the time indicated on... Read More
The shadow from a total solar eclipse could be seen moving east-southeastward across northeastern Australia and the adjacent waters of the South Pacific Ocean on Japanese MTSAT-1R 0.7 µm visible channel images (above).The solar eclipse shadow was also evident on a visible image from the Korean COMS-1 satellite (below).As the... Read More
