According to NOAA’s Great Lakes Surface Environmental Analysis (GLSEA) the Great Lakes were 11.6% ice covered on February 2nd when an arctic air mass was descending southward over the region. The cold air boosted ice coverage to 14.7% on February 3rd, less than half of the average extent (1973-2022)... Read More
At around 9 PM EST on 03 February 2023 (0200 UTC on 04 February) a 50-car train derailed in East Palestine in far eastern Ohio, with some of the rail cars carrying hazardous chemicals that caught fire (media report) — and GOES-16 (GOES-East) Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) images (above) showed the thermal... Read More
After a prolonged 3-day winter storm that produced highly disruptive accumulations of sleet and freezing rain (WPC Storm Summary) across parts of the Southern Plains and Mid-South from 31 January – 02 February 2023, clouds cleared out across much of those regions on 03 February — allowing GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and Day Snow-Fog RGB images... Read More
CIMSS scientists have created a website that extracts from the Level 1b ABI files information on the global mean radiance (and maximum, and minimum radiances) for each of the 16 channels at this link. The figure above tracks the global mean temperature of the GOES-16 Band 8 (Upper Level Water Vapor,... Read More
