A rare Full Moon on Christmas — the last occurrence was in 1977, and the next will be in 2034 — was reached at 1111 UTC, and provided some compelling “visible images at night” from the Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.7 µm Day/Night Band (DNB). The animation above shows the coverage of... Read More

GOES-13 nighttime “Fog/stratus product” IR brightness temperature difference (10.7 µm – 3.9 µm, 4-km resolution) and daytime Visible (0.63 µm, 1-km resolution) images (above) showed the development of lake effect cloud bands that streamed southward across North Central Texas during the pre-dawn and early morning hours on 18 December 2015.... Read More

We received the following notification on Twitter from Walt Clark: great meso-B MCV over Qinghai Lake in first light himawari 2230-630+Z. tough to get a good image loop of it tho. @CIMSS_Satellite — Walt Clark (@waclark4) December 18, 2015 Good catch Walt, and thanks for the heads-up! Using the Location Search feature... Read More

On the afternoon of 16 December 2015, a toggle between Suomi NPP VIIRS Visible (0.64 µm, 375-m resolution) and False-color Red/Green/Blue (RGB) images (above) showed areas of snow cover (shades of red on the RGB image) that remained from separate snowfall events during the 13 December – 15 December time period (24-hour snowfall maps). Snow depth... Read More