Turbulence early on 24 December on a flight (Airbus A-300) from Barbados to Manchester (Scotland) led to a diversion (to Bermuda) and hospitalization (albeit with non-life-threatening injuries) of about a dozen passengers. The graphic below shows the path of the flight with data taken from FlightAware.com. The green parts of... Read More
The National Weather Service forecast office in Wilmington OH (Twitter link) has noted via tweets during the day on 18 December 2023 (link, link, link) that road visibility conditions are variable in the extreme as snow showers move through Indiana and Ohio. The Day Cloud Phase distinction imagery below at 1701, 1801... Read More
National Weather Service Pago Pago Facebook posts on 11 December describe an atmosphere primed for heavy rain and lightning, the latter Facebook also shown below. Band 13 animation, above, shows persistent deep convection over the Samoan Islands. The convection develops and drifts southward.MIMIC Total Precipitable Water over the south Pacific shows... Read More
Overlapping 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sectors from GOES-16 (GOES-East) provided imagery at 30-second intervals during an outbreak of severe thunderstorms (SPC Storm Reports) across parts of the Mid-South and Deep South on 09 December 2023. “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (above) included time-matched plots of SPC Storm Reports for a thunderstorm that produced a... Read More
