MODIS “true color” and “false color” Red/Green/Blue (RGB) images from the SSEC MODIS Today site (above) showed extensive areas of flooding along the Red River of the North on 29 March 2009. Widespread areas of inundated... Read More

The Mt. Redoubt volcano (located about 100 miles southwest of Anchorage, Alaska) produced a series of explosive eruptions beginning around 06:38 UTC on 23 March 2009. GOES-11 10.7 µm IR images (above) showed a few of the volcanic eruption clouds, which exhibited IR... Read More

Strong northwesterly winds (gusting as high as 70 mph at Grand Marais in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and 57 mph at Washington Island in northeastern Wisconsin) caused a large portion of the land-fast ice in the far northern portion of Green Bay to break away and begin drifting eastward... Read More

A single-band lake-effect snow event dropped as much as 14.4 inches of snow in parts of Milwaukee, Wisconsin on 02 March 2009. GOES-13 visible images (above) showed the narrow but intense band as it meandered... Read More