On 14 January 2026, a strong surface pressure gradient was found over the upper Midwestern United States. This can be seen in the NOAA Weather Prediction Center surface map for 1500 UTC on this day. While the center of the low pressure system is off over southern Québec, the tight... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Water Vapor and Visible images (above) included plots of Pilot Reports (PIREPs) of Moderate to occasionally Severe turbulence — several of which were in the vicinity of mountain waves over parts of eastern Colorado on 05 January 2026. It was notable that in the area where mountain... Read More
A common sight on calm nights and early mornings is radiation fog: as the surface cools at night, the air above the ground cools as well. The absolute moisture content of the air remains the same, but since the temperature is dropping less water vapor can be contained in equilibrium... Read More
10-minute Full Disk scan GOES-19 (GOES-East) True Color RGB images along with the Aerosol Optical Depth derived product from the CSPP GeoSphere site (above) showed a pulse of blowing dust that was moving northward and westward across the northern Patagonia region of Argentina on 01 January 2026.Surface analyses (below) depicted a cold front that was... Read More
