GOES-12 visible channel images (above) showed advection fog that developed over Lake Michigan during the day on 07 May 2009. As pointed out on the US Air Quality (aka The Smog Blog) site,  this fog... Read More

AWIPS images of the MIMIC Total Precipitable Water (TPW) product (above) showed the presence of  long, narrow  filaments of moisture (often described as “atmospheric rivers“) that were moving across the North Pacific Ocean and the North... Read More

Multiple clusters of intense deep convection developed over the northeastern Gulf of Mexico during the daytime hours on 13 April 2009. According to the SPC Storm Reports, there were several reports of tornadoes and... Read More

A large outbreak of wildfires occurred across parts of Texas and Oklahoma on 09 April 2009. GOES-13 visible images (above) showed several very large smoke plumes  drifting eastward across far northern Texas and far southern Oklahoma during the afternoon hours.  These fires... Read More