MODIS true color imagery from the SSEC MODIS Today site (above, viewed using Google Earth) shows extensive snow cover over the higher elevations of southern California (and Baja California in Mexico) on 15 February 2008. According to media reports, this snow closed sections of Interstate 8 (between Alpine and Ocotillo) for more than 12 hours on the... Read More

According to GOES-12 visible channel imagery (above), less than 12 hours if you’re in the Piedmont region of Virginia and North Carolina, given the presence of dry air and the “warming power” of the increasing sun angle of mid-February! Besides the rapid disappearance of the snow cover on 14 February 2008, there... Read More

A significant ice storm affected parts of extreme southeastern Kansas and southern Missouri on 11–12 February 2008, leaving an accrual of ice more than 1 inch thick in parts of Missouri. AWIPS images of the visible and 1.6µm near-IR “snow/ice” channels (above) revealed the extent of the coverage of snow and ice that remained a day later on 13 February 2008. Note the very dark... Read More

A MODIS true color image displayed using Google Earth (above) shows striking variations in the color of the water in the region around the Bahamas and southern Florida on 05 February 2008. The lighter blue water colors indicate the extent of the relatively shallow banks (water generally less than 25 meters... Read More