An AWIPS image of the MODIS visible channel (above) shows fresh snow cover over much of the Upper Midwest region on the afternoon of 16 January 2007, following a winter storm that moved through the area 1-2 days earlier. This satellite scene... Read More

SSEC/AMRC co-investigator Matt Lazzara was down in Antarctica in January (don’t worry, it was summer down there at the time) heping to install a new Automated Weather Station (AWS) on the Ross Ice Shelf. He sent a nice Terra MODIS visible channel image that they received at McMurdo Station (above), as well... Read More

A cold frontal boundary moved southeastward across Wisconsin early in the day on 12 January 2007 — an extensive deck of post-frontal stratus cloud covered much of the southern half of the state during the afternoon hours, as seen on the MODIS... Read More

AWIPS MODIS water vapor channel imagery (above) shows a well-defined (but cloud-free) variant of a “Foehn gap” over central Colorado on 04 January 2007. This Foehn gap was oriented roughly north-south, just to the lee of the highest terrain of the Front Range of the Rocky... Read More