As noted here, the ftp site that holds imagery from the CIMSS/SSEC Direct Broadcast site (link) includes daytime True-Color imagery (spectacular imagery!) derived from the NOAA-20 and Suomi-NPP VIIRS instrument. Daily sectorized views of each of the Great Lakes are created, and these can be strung together, as in this... Read More
GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) revealed the formation of a mesovortex in northern Lake Superior on 28 December 2020. Mid-lake convergence — as depicted by RAP40 model surface winds — contributed to the development of this feature.ASCAT surface scatterometer winds from Metop-A at 1537 UTC (below) provided a... Read More
A sequence of GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images covering the 14 December – 26 December 2020 period (above) showed that after Iceberg A68a encountered the more shallow continental shelf waters southwest of South Georgia island earlier in the month (NOAA-20 True Color RGB images, 02-13 December), the large iceberg then began to move south-southeastward, shear... Read More
A storm dropped historic snow amounts over parts of northern Pennsylvania, upstate New York and New England on 16-17 December 2020 (Places around Binghamton NY, for example, received more than 40″ of snow as shown in this map from this site. Click here to see the Binghamton Radar loop during the storm). ... Read More
