Hurricane Celia became the first Category 5 tropical cyclone of the 2010 East Pacific season on 24 June — in fact, the 140 knot intensity of Celia tied with Hurricane Ava (1973) as the strongest East Pacific Basin hurricane on record during... Read More

On yet another relatively rare SPC “High Risk” Convective Outlook day, a major outbreak of damaging tornadoes occurred across parts of Oklahoma and Kansas on 10 May 2010 (see: SPC storm reports | NWS Norman OK | NWS Witchita KS). McIDAS images of the GOES-13 0.63 µm visible channel data (above) showed the development of numerous long-track supercell thunderstorms across the southern... Read More

The break-up of a meteor entering the Earth’s atmosphere caused a large “fireball” of light that was seen  across parts of the Upper Midwest region around 10:00 pm local time on 14 April 2010 (or 03:00 UTC on 15 April 2010). The images above — also available as a Read More

The first official GOES-15 full disk visible image (above) became available at 17:33 UTC on 06 April 2010. For more details, see the SSEC Spotlight and the NOAA News pages. GOES-15 (GOES-P) is the final spacecraft in the GOES N/O/P series — the next quantum leap in GOES satellite capabilities will come with the... Read More