The Storm Prediction Center placed portions of the upper Midwest United States in a marginal risk of severe weather on 8 February 2024 and issued two mesoscale discussion on the thunderstorm development, one at 2053 UTC, one at 2345 UTC. The graphic from the 2053 UTC MD is shown below. The animation above shows clean window infrared imagery overlain by the Level... Read More
A distinct hot thermal signature (black to yellow to red pixels) of a new Sundhnúkagígar fissure eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula in southwestern Iceland was apparent in GOES-16 (GOES-East) Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) imagery on 08 February 2024 (above). Station identifier BIRK is Reykjavik Airport, and BIKF is Keflavik International Airport.Since the... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (above) showed thunderstorms that moved across Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands on 06 February 2024. These storms produced up to 4-5 inches of rainfall in parts of central Puerto Rico, with wind gusts as high as... Read More
At the CIMSS Satellite Blog, we occasionally get emails from our readers. Yesterday’s (6 February 2024) email included this one: I was doing some forecasting for the Canadian Arctic today and noticed a veryimpressive blowing snow signature on satellite; not that blowing snow isuncommon up there, but rather that the... Read More
