Well, not really — but a very interesting cloud plume formed yesterday and streamed off the 20,318-ft (6194-m) summit of Denali (“Mt. McKinley”) in southern Alaska on 10 June 2009, which almost had the  appearance of a volcanic eruption plume. GOES-11 visible images (above) showed this thin cloud plume spreading... Read More

It’s a sure sign that Summer can’t be far off when Hudson Bay in Canada finally begins to lose its ice coverage — and a comparison of MODIS true color (channels 01/04/03) and false color (channels 01/07/07) Red/Green/Blue (RGB) images from the SSEC... Read More

A large outbreak of wildfires occurred across parts of Texas and Oklahoma on 09 April 2009. GOES-13 visible images (above) showed several very large smoke plumes  drifting eastward across far northern Texas and far southern Oklahoma during the afternoon hours.  These fires... Read More

GOES-13 visible images (above) displayed the formation of a “standing wave” cloud feature along the Lake Superior shoreline of northeastern Minnesota on 07 April 2009. In addition to the wave cloud, note that you can also see the southeastward drift of lake... Read More