GOES-12 visible channel images (above; Java animation) revealed an undular bore that was propagating southeastward across the Gulf Coast region of the US on 11 April 2007. This feature was... Read More

A shallow bank of fog and stratus cloud was moving southward along the Delaware/Maryland/Virginia coast during the pre-dawn and early morning hours on 03 April 2007. GOES-12 3.9µm InfraRed (IR) imagery (above; Read More

GOES-11 (GOES-West) Visible (daytime) and 3.9 µm Shortwave Infrared (nighttime) imagery (above) revealed an interesting cyclonic vortex which was propagating westward across the eastern North Pacific Ocean on 13-14 March 2007. The radial banded cloud features that form such a cloud “swirl” are known as actinae or Read More

Two interesting semi-linear cloud features were apparent in the vicinity of the Hawaiian Islands on 06 November: (1) a cloud line to the lee of the Big Island of Hawaii, due to easterly “trade winds” within the marine boundary layer converging after flowing around... Read More