The historic Central US river flooding event of 2008 continued into mid-June across parts of the Upper Midwest states (Google Earth map of river gauges). A sequence of MODIS false-color images from the SSEC MODIS Today site (above) covers the period from 01 June to 17 June, and shows the increase in flooded and inundated rivers across eastern Iowa, northwestern Illinois, and southwestern... Read More

Parts of the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes states received unusually heavy rainfall during the first 2 weeks of June 2008, which caused widespread flash flooding and river flooding to occur — as a result, many rivers in eastern Iowa and southern Wisconsin crested at record high levels. During the 07 June... Read More

A comparison of AWIPS images of the GOES-12 3.9µm and the MODIS 3.7µm “shortwave IR” channels (above) revealed that numerous small fires were burning across parts of eastern Kansas and northeastern Oklahoma during the afternoon of 06 April 2008. Note how the 1-km resolution MODIS imagery did a better job... Read More

A MODIS false color image from the SSEC MODIS Today site (above) shows the extent of river flooding across much of the Mississippi River and Ohio River valley regions in the central US on 20 March 2008. This image is a 3-channel Red/Green/Blue (RGB) combination using MODIS band 7 (2.1µm), band 2 (0.8µm), and band... Read More