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

A late-season winter storm brought heavy snowfall to much of the central US — Rapid City, South Dakota (station identifier RAP) set records that included 20.0 inches on 09 April 2013 (most snowfall on a calendar... Read More

Continuing on the theme of the previous blog post, AWIPS images of Suomi NPP VIIRS Day/Night Band (0.7 µm) and Infrared Window (11.45 µm) data (above) showed another large mesoscale convective system over the eastern Gulf of Mexico at 06:45 UTC or 4:45 AM... Read More