Regular readers of this blog will be quick to recognize the GOES imagery above as a low cloud detection product that exploits the differences in emissivity properties for water droplets that exist between 3.9 and 10.7 µm, two radiation bands that are detected on the GOES imager. The emissivity differences... Read More
The water vapor animation from GOES-East on March 12th shows a structure rotating through the upper-level trough, which structure looks very much like a so-called “Sting Jet”. (In the animation above, the sting jet structure crosses the Missouri/Kansas border south of Kansas City, propagates across northern Missouri and eastern Iowa... Read More
Severe thunderstorms during the early morning hours of February 29th, 2012 produced several tornadoes over Missouri, including one near Branson, and one near Lebanon. (Annotated SPC storm report map here, originally from here) The GOES-13 enhanced infrared images from 0615 UTC and from 0632 UTC... Read More
Unseasonably strong thunderstorms in the Piedmont on the East Coast produced a variety of severe weather on February 24th. (Storm reports are here.) The image above was produced by the SSEC/CIMSS web map service at 2006 UTC on 24 February and includes radar reflectivities, watches/warnings, storm reports, and satellite-detected cloud... Read More
