A useful strength of NUCAPS profiles over Alaska is that at that northern Latitude, sequential overpasses will overlap so that one location will be sampled sequential times. In the example above, note for example that portions of Canada’s Northwest Territories are sampled three times. Much of southern Alaska is sampled... Read More

Cold temperatures over the Great Lakes (the Green Bay 850-mb sounding temperatures, for example, were -11.9º C at 0000 UTC and -8.1º C at 1200 UTC) on 18-19 November 2021 generated extensive cloud cover and occasional snow showers. The nighttime microphysics RGB, above, showed extensive stratiform clouds downwind of Lake Michigan. The GOES-16 Cloud Top Phase product at this... Read More

Clear skies in the early morning of 10 November 2021 allowed mapping of lake surface temperatures (LSTs) over the Great Lakes using the Advanced Clear-Sky Processor for Oceans (ACSPO) algorithm with VIIRS data acquired at the direct broadcast site at CIMSS. Surface values over Lake Superior, for example, were in... Read More

The Storm Prediction Center in Norman issued a convective outlook on 12 October 2021 that included a large area of Enhanced Risk over western Kansas and Oklahoma, noting the expected development of a strong low-level jet creating favorable shear profiles for supercells. (SPC increased the threat to a Moderate Risk for a small part of southwestern Kansas and parts of the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles at 2000 UTC). The Band 10 low-level water vapor image above, from 1931 UTC. An... Read More