Mesoscale Convective System along the Gulf Coast region
A large Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) developed ahead of a slow-moving cold front and moved over the Gulf Coast region of the US on 29 April – 30... Read More
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Blowing dust in the central Plains, and a severe weather outbreak in the southern Plains and Lower Mississippi River Valley regions
A Suomi NPP VIIRS true-color Red/Green/Blue (RGB) image visualized using the SSEC RealEarth web map server (above) showed large areas of blowing dust across parts of the central Plains states on the afternoon of 27 April 2014.... Read More
Rapidly intensifying mid-latitude cyclone off the East Coast of the US
AWIPS images of a composite of 4-km resolution GOES-15 (GOES-West) and GOES-13 (GOES-East) 6.5 µm water vapor channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed the development of a large mid-latitude cyclone off the East Coast of the US on 26 March... Read More
Landsat-8 images of Washington State landslide site
Kudos to Russ Dengel of the SSEC RealEarth web map server development team for spotting this: a relatively cloud-free overpass of the Landsat-8 satellite which revealed the site of the massive landslide/mudslide near the small town... Read More
