Strong northwesterly winds along the California coast interacted with the complex terrain and orientation of Monterey Bay to promote the formation of a cyclonic coastal eddy (known locally as an “Otter Eddy”) early in the day on 13 May 2013. McIDAS images of... Read More

The “cutoff low” system that had been slowly moving across the country for the past week spawned heavy rains which caused flooding in parts of the New York City (NYC) metropolitan area on the morning of 08 May 2013. The... Read More

In honor of Earth Day, we offer a glimpse of the cloud cover across the planet, using a rotating global composite of geostationary IR images (data from the GOES-East, GOES-West, Meteosat, and MTSAT satellites) at 12:00 UTC on 22 April 2013 (above; click image to play animation).... Read More

A comparison of McIDAS images of 1-km resolution GOES-13 (GOES-East) Visible (0.63 µm) and 4-km resolution Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) data (above) revealed a number of ship tracks in the marine boundary layer stratocumulus cloud deck over the western Atlantic Ocean on 13... Read More