GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) showed the wind-driven consolidation of ice within Green Bay during the 03 March – 04 March 2021 period. Northerly winds in the wake of a cold frontal passage on 03 March led to the fracturing of land-fast ice in the far northern portion of Green Bay... Read More
GOES-16 (GOES-East) Day Snow-Fog RGB images (above) showed widespread horizontal convective rolls (HCRs) which highlighted areas where blowing snow was more concentrated across parts of southern Manitoba and the Upper Midwest on 06 February 2021. Snow cover (and glaciated clouds) appeared as shades of red, with bare ground exhibiting lighter shades of green and... Read More
A tornado struck the Tallahassee, FL, airport at 1643 UTC on 27 January 2021 (SPC Storm Report). The animation above shows ProbSevere (version 2) fields (from this site) in the hour leading up to tornadogenesis. The animation demonstrates how ProbTor values can be used to identify for closer scrutiny a particular radar object: the... Read More
After making landfall as a Category 1 Hurricane along Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula a day earlier, a weakened Tropical Storm Zeta (NHC advisories) began to slowly re-intensify as it moved northward across the Gulf of Mexico after sunset on 27 October 2020 — 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images with an overlay of... Read More
