Consider the rocking animation (if you click on it) of 1-minute visible imagery, above, showing the high plains of West Texas from 1900-2030 UTC on 7 May 2020. A dryline is present; can you predict from this imagery where convection will initiate? (Will it? Spoiler alert: Yes, and Yes!)The Split... Read More
GOES-16 Clean Window imagery from 1800 UTC on 7 May 2020, above, suggests a frontal zone from the central Atlantic southwestward through the Florida Straits. What products can be used to diagnose the moisture differences between the dry airmass over the southeast United States/Florida and the far moister airmass over... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) showed a long-lived Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) or derecho that produced a swath of large hail and damaging winds (SPC Storm Reports | NWS Nashville) from eastern Kansas to central Tennessee, northern Mississippi and northern Alabama on 03 May 2020.The corresponding GOES-16 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm)... Read More
A cloud band passing through the upper midwest on 1 May 2020, shown above in the GOES-16 ABI Visible and Infrared imagery (toggled with NUCAPS products and radar), was accompanied by radar echoes. Would you expect that radar-indicated precipitation to reach the ground? Gridded NUCAPS fields (shown here with NUCAPS Sounding availability points) show... Read More
