A long lake effect snow band became well-organized and stretched nearly the entire length of Lake Ontario on 20 January 2011. The cloud band was very evident on McIDAS images of GOES-13 0.63 µm visible channel data (above; click image to play animation). As the lake band moved onshore, it produced light... Read More
McIDAS images of GOES-11 0.65 µm visible channel data (above) revealed some interesting cloud features over the far eastern North Pacific Ocean on 17 September 2010: (1) a large “hole” in the stratoculumus cloud field, which contained an intersecting pattern of ship condensation trails (or “ship tracks”), and (2) a subtle train... Read More
The image comparison above shows “before” and “after” views of the axis of the Gulf Stream off the southeast coast of the US. The “before” view is the Sea Surface Temperatue (SST) analysis from the RTG_SST High Resolution model at 00:00 UTC on 02 September 2010 (before Hurricane Earl arrived) — the... Read More
Recent news articles (such as this one) have noted the unusual warmth present in the surface waters of the Great Lakes. Clear skies over the western Great Lakes on Sunday 8 August allowed MODIS instruments to measure sea surface temperatures, and the warm temperatures are plain to see. These warm temperatures... Read More
