EUMETSAT Meteosat-10 SEVIRI High Resolution Visible (0.8 µm) images (above; click to play animation) showed the development of an isolated supercell thunderstorm that produced large hail and a violent tornado (1 fatality; estimated EF3 damage) near Venice, Italy (station identifier LIPZ) around 1530 UTC on 08 July 2015. Additional information... Read More
The 2015 Wildfire Season is off to a quick start in Alaska (continuing an observed trend). This map (from this site) shows more than 300 active fires over Alaska at 2000 UTC on 29 June 2015. This graph (from the Alaska Climate Info Facebook page) compares early burn acreage in 2015 to that in 2004... Read More
GOES-14 is producing imagery at 1-minute intervals as part of Super-Rapid Scan Operations for GOES-R (SRSO-R). Sectors that are scanned change each day and are determined by likely weather events. The animation above, in the southwest corner of the Monday May 18 sector shows strong convection over northern Louisiana. (A similar animation in mp4 format is available here... Read More
The Calbuco volcano in southern Chile erupted around 2103 UTC or 6:03 pm local time on 22 April 2015. The first good satellite view of the volcanic cloud was provided by the 2138 UTC or 6:38 pm local time GOES-13 (GOES-East) 0.63 µm visible channel and 10.7 µm IR channel... Read More
