While Wisconsin endures a very cold airmass without the brightening benefit of snow, various satellites continue to take spectacular imagery.  The GOES-16 True Color imagery above, from the CSPP Geosphere site, shows a clear scene and snowless features over southern Wisconsin (except over Racine and Kenosha counties in far southeast WI where... Read More

Vermont was hit with its worst flooding in over a century, making it one of the worst natural disasters in the state’s history. Rains dumped up to nine inches from Monday, July 9 and into Tuesday, July 10, 2023. Major roads and highways were shut down, and more than 200 rescues... Read More

There are more than 7300 satellites in orbit above the Earth, and the mp4 animation above (from Rick Kohrs, SSEC; click here for an animated gif) shows their locations during about 3 hours on 6 April 2023. The points were computed using TLE data from https://celestrak.org. Some satellites are in geostationary orbit along the equator... Read More

Tutuila, the large island of American Samoa, experienced very heavy rain early in the morning of 21 March 2023, especially over the western parts of the Island. (However, the raingauge at the Pago Pago airport, in central Tutuila, received only 0.15″ of rain!) The animation above shows the development of... Read More