While Chicago O’Hare recently retook the crown of the country’s busiest airport in terms of number of flights, Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport (ATL) continues to have the largest number of passengers. A great number of those ATL passengers were significantly inconvenienced on the evening of 6 March 2026 as a... Read More
5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Visible and Infrared images (above) showed a supercell thunderstorm that developed in northern Indiana and tracked northeast across far southern Lower Michigan on 06 March 2026. This thunderstorm formed in the vicinity of a warm front (surface analyses) that was moving northward across the region — surface plots indicated... Read More
The early morning hours of 21 February 2026 brought some intense tropical convection to the vicinity of the Samoan Islands. Radar coverage is lacking in this part of the world so satellites remain the best way to monitor storms in this region for potential safety hazards. A good first stop... Read More
5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 µm) images (above) showed the evolution of a large and intense Nor’easter that produced as much as 37.9 inches of snowfall in Rhode Island (a preliminary State record) and wind gusts as high as 84 mph in New York (WPC Storm Summary) during the 22 February... Read More
