Hurricane Ingrid had been going though a period of slow intensification (ADT plot) off the Gulf Coast of Mexico during the overnight hours on 14 September – Read More

A comparison of AWIPS images of Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.7 µm Day/Night Band and 11.45 µm IR channel data (above) showed a large mesoscale convective system in southwestern Arizona at 08:40 UTC or 2:40 am local time on 20 July 2013. With ample... Read More

The GOES-15 (GOES-West) satellite was placed into Super Rapid Scan Operations (SRSO) on 18 May 2013 (to support the IfloodS field experiment), providing bursts of imagery at 1-minute intervals. At the same time, the GOES-13 (GOES-East) satellite had been... Read More

A large nocturnal mesoscale convective system (MCS) was moving eastward across the Gulf of Mexico during the pre-dawn hours on 01 May 2013. AWIPS images of Suomi NPP VIIRS 11.45 µm IR channel and 0.7 µm Day/Night Band (DNB) data with an overlay of cloud-to-ground lightning strikes (above) revealed numerous cloud-top gravity... Read More