The first accumulating snowfall of the season reported in the higher elevations of Colorado was on 19 September 2013 in the vicinity of Breckenridge Ski Resort, but a cold front associated with an upper-level trough of low pressure passing through the state on... Read More
Heavy rain fell over much of the Front Range of Colorado overnight, with Boulder receiving an all-time 24-hour total of 9.08 inches (Weather Underground blog). Numerous CoCoRAHS locations in Boulder County reported 24-hour rainfall amounts in excess of 6″, in a region where monthly precipitation records are close... Read More
Tropical Storm Dorian has formed in the far eastern Tropical Atlantic, just west of the Cape Verde Islands. The visible imagery above, from GOES-13 (left) and GOES-12 (right) shows the evolution of the storm in the morning on July 25th. The position change in six hours between 0845 UTC and 1445 UTC... Read More
The shallow-water natural gas drilling rig Hercules 265 (located in about 150 feet of water, 55 miles off the coast of Louisiana) caught fire late in the evening on 23 July 2013. This fire event was captured by polar orbiting satellites with VIIRS, MODIS, and AVHRR instruments (above) and also... Read More
