GOES-13 replaced GOES-14 as the operational GOES-East satellite at 1444 UTC on 18 October 2012. The image above shows the 5 imager channels at 1445 UTC.In September of 2012, Imagery from both the GOES-13 Sounder and from the GOES-13 Imager showed increasing amounts of noise. On September 23, 2012, GOES-13 was... Read More

A night-time (just after 07 UTC) comparison of AWIPS images of 375-meter resolution (mapped onto a 1-km AWIPS grid) Suomi NPP VIIRS 11.45 µm IR and 4-km resolution GOES-14 10.7 µm IR channel data (above) showed deep convection associated with tropical cyclone Invest 97L located to the east of the... Read More

The first significant winter storm of the season over the north-central US and south-central Canada produced snowfall amounts as high as 14 inches over northwestern Minnesota and 4 inches over northeastern North Dakota on 04 October 2012. It is interesting to note that this snow event occurred 2 days after that same region... Read More

Numerous wildfires began to burn across parts of northeastern North Dakota, northwestern Minnesota, and southeastern Manitoba during the afternoon hours on 02 October 2012. Strong south to southwest winds in advance of an approaching cold front were gusting into the 35-45 mph range,... Read More