CSPP True Color imagery (link) above suggests a region of apparent dust over the eastern Caribbean Sea. That is, there is a hazy look to the imagery that persists even as the region of sun glint moves past. Suspended dust in the tropical Atlantic is known to suppress convection. Other... Read More

An animation from the CSPP Geosphere site, above (link), shows a quiescent period in/around Samoa and American Samoa. Low clouds (purple and pink) occasionally developed overnight into showers (dark red) that then dissipated.NOAA-20 overflew the Samoan islands at around 1200 UTC on 8 July, as shown in the toggle below... Read More

Gridded NUCAPS data, available from NOAA-20 data within AWIPS, can be used to construct cross-sections in AWIPS. The image above includes an editable baseline J-J’ (one of 10 different lines that can be used for data in AWIPS) from Minnesota into Indiana, roughly perpendicular to a line of broken cumulus... Read More

A weak line of showers moved through southern Wisconsin late in the afternoon of 10 June 2022, as depicted in the 2001 UTC toggle above of NEXRAD Composite Reflectivity and GOES-16 Day Cloud Phase Distinction RGB. What satellite-based products could be used to anticipate that line?NOAA-20 orbits over the Midwestern... Read More