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
ProbSevere (version 3) is an online tool that is available at this link. It gives the probability that the designated radar object will product severe weather in the next 60 minutes, and it was designed to be used in conjunction with other radar, satellite and model data to increase confidence... Read More
