Overlapping portions of 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sectors provided GOES-19 (GOES-East) imagery at 30-second intervals — and Infrared images with plots of SPC Storm Reports (above) showed thunderstorms that produced tornadoes, large hail and damaging winds across parts of southern and central Mississippi and Alabama from the late afternoon into the early evening hours... Read More

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) GeoColor RGB images (above) showed areas of blowing dust — lofted by strong southwest winds (with gusts in the 30-40 mph range) blowing across recently-plowed agricultural fields — that were being transported northeastward from central Illinois to northern Indiana on 04 May 2026.A Blowing Dust Advisory had been issued... Read More

5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Visible and Infrared images (above) showed a couplet of thunderstorm cells that moved toward the South Texas coast during the afternoon hours on 01 May 2026 — which produced hail, an EF1-rated tornado and damaging wind gusts as high as 119 mph (SPC Storm Reports | NWS Corpus Christi damage survey).GOES-19 Infrared images (below) showed... Read More

One of the defining characteristics of spring in the upper midwest is a land surface that warms up much more quickly than the many lakes do. There’s a couple of reasons for this: water itself has a higher heat capacity than soil does, sun penetrates into the lakes somewhat which... Read More