We received the following in an email from the  National Weather Service forecast office at Fort Worth, Texas:Some of our forecasters noted an interesting feature on visible satellite imagery on Thursday, Feb 12, 2009. I would like to get an expert opinion on what... Read More

A side-by-side comparison of GOES-12 and GOES-13 visible images (above) shows a well-defined lake-effect cloud band that was oriented generally north-to-south across Lake Michigan on 04 February 2009. This narrow cloud band was producing heavy snow as it moved inland over far... Read More

MODIS visible + snow/ice images AWIPS images of the MODIS visible channel and the 2.1 µm near-IR “snow/ice discrimination” channel (above) showed the areal coverage of surface snowfall and ice accrual across much of the southern Plains on 28 January 2009. Many... Read More

A comparison of GOES-12 and GOES-13 visible images (above) showed a long lake-effect cloud band that was oriented generally north-to-south across Lake Michigan on 20 January 2009. Convergence of surface winds was helping to sustain the cloud band over the lake, which... Read More