The summer solstice occurred on June 20th this year (2025). The summer solstice is the day with the longest period of daylight and the shortest night of the year in a given hemisphere, and marks the beginning of astronomical summer. In the Northern Hemisphere, it typically falls on June 20... Read More
Grand Island, Nebraska received 6.41″ of rainfall during the calendar day on 25 June 2025 — which set a new record for the date and for any single day during the month of June. 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Infrared images centered at Grand Island (above) included an overlay of the... Read More
5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Visible images with an overlay of GLM Flash Extent Density (FED) and contours of LightningCast Probability (above) showed two isolated thunderstorms which passed over the eastern portion of Lake Murray (located in central South Carolina, just northwest of Columbia KCAE) during the late afternoon hours on... Read More
GOES-19 True Color imagery (from CSPP Geosphere) over the mid-Atlantic between 35o and 40oN Latitude, above, shows the circulation of Tropical Storm Andrea, a system that has been tracked for several days now. Overnight, convection developed over the storm, but that convection appears to have dissipated by mid-day on 24 June 2025.... Read More
