A large storm produced significant winter weather impacts from the southern Plains to the Mid-Atlantic states during the 07 December – 10 December 2018 period. GOES-16 (GOES-East) Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 µm) images (above) showed the progression of the storm during that 3-day interval.As much as 10-11 inches of snow fell in the Lubbock,... Read More
In support of the RELAMPAGO-CACTI field experiment, GOES-16 (GOES-East) had a Mesoscale Domain Sector centered over northeastern Argentina on 13 November 2018 — and 1-minute “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images with plots of GLM Groups (above) showed a large and long-lived Mesoscale Convective System moving eastward across far northeastern Argentina and expanding into southern... Read More
A sequence of Infrared Window images from Terra/Aqua MODIS (11.0 µm) and NOAA-20/Suomi NPP VIIRS (11.45 µm) (above) showed Category 4 Hurricane Michael as it was making its approach toward the Florida coast during the nighttime hours preceding sunrise on 10 October 2018. The yellow pixels east of the eye on the 0724 UTC VIIRS image highlighted... Read More
After previously weakening from a Category 4 hurricane (on 04 September) to a tropical storm on 07 September (track/intensity), Florence re-intensified to become a Category 1 hurricane at 15 UTC on 09 September 2018. 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.63 µm) are shown above, with the corresponding “Clean” Infrared Window... Read More
