A classic winter weather pattern developed over the Pacific Ocean this week setting the stage for significant drought relief for the western U.S., along with heavy to excessive coastal rains and mountain snow measured in feet for the Sierras and Rockies. Even though this is a “classic” winter pattern, it... Read More
It’s very hard to choose just one event from every month of the year, but the goal is to show the range of phenomena and locations that NOAA‘s GOES ABI routinely monitors, in this case during 2022. Most loops generated are from the University of Wisconsin-Madison CIMSS Satellite Blog, which... Read More
An anomalousy deep extratropical storm or “Kona Storm” north of Hawai`i (surface analyses) brought strong winds and heavy rainfall to much of the island chain during the 18-20 December 2022 period. GOES-17 (GOES-West) Air Mass RGB images (above) showed the core of the storm (darker shades of orange-red) as well as widespread thunderstorms along and ahead of the... Read More
On 18 December 2022, Hawaiian Airlines Flight 35 (HAL 35, from Phoenix to Honolulu) encountered severe turbulence about 30 minutes prior to landing, which injured 36 passengers and crew (media report). GOES-17 (GOES-West) Upper-level Water Vapor (6.2 µm) images (above) include contours of Moderate Or Greater (MOG) Turbulence Probability and Pilot Report... Read More
