Oceans such as the South Pacific can be a large data void. NOAA-20 NUCAPS profiles can be an important data source to define the state of the atmosphere. The image above shows NUCAPS Sounding Availability from the overnight pass over American Samoa; the largest island of American Samoa, Tutuila, is... Read More
April 11 2022 saw the first measurable snowfall ever in April at the Portland OR airport (WFO Portland Tweet), where records have been kept since 1940. The GOES-16 animation above shows the weather system responsible for the weather.NOAA-20 overflew the west coast shortly after 1000 UTC (map of the orbit, from this website), and NUCAPS profiles... Read More
MIMIC (Morphed Integrated Microwave Imagery at CIMSS) estimates of Total Precipitable Water, above, and available in real time here, and archived here, show two cyclonic rotations on the poleward side of the deep moisture of the Intertropical Convergence Zone in the western Pacific. These two circulations are areas of interest... Read More
The Storm Prediction Center issued a Mesoscale Discussion (#337 for 2022) at 1918 UTC on 25 March 2022 for southern Wisconsin/northern Illinois discussing the possibility of convective snow showers late in the day on 25 March 2022. The toggle above shows gridded NUCAPS values of 500-mb Temperature over the upper midwest in a toggle... Read More
