On a rare “High Risk” SPC Convective Outlook day, a significant tornado outbreak occurred across the Deep South region of the US on 24 April 2010 which produced long-track tornadoes that were responsible for at least 10 fatalities across parts of Mississippi (SPC storm reports | NWS Jackson MS event summary). AWIPS images of the GOES-13 6.5 µm water vapor channel data... Read More

EUMETSAT Metetosat-9 10.8 µm IR images (above; also available as a QuickTime movie) showed the evolution of a disturbance that had all the appearances of being another example of a rather rare event: a subtropical cyclone in the South Atlantic Ocean (off the southeast coast of Brazil) during the 09 March... Read More

A major eruption followed a partial dome collapse in the crater of the Soufriere Hills volcano on the West Indies island of Montserrat during the daytime hours on 11 February 2010. McIDAS images of the GOES-12 visible channel data (above) showed the rapid east-southeastward expansion of the volcanic cloud following the eruption around 17:00... Read More

The Winter of 2009/2010 has brought a number of significant snowfall events to parts of the US East Coast — and another powerful storm affected that region on 05 February – 06 February 2010. The highest storm total snowfall reported was 40.0 inches at Colesville in Maryland. Washington Dulles International Airport received 32.4... Read More