The first tropical depression of the 2009 season formed off the US East Coast on 28 May 2009. An AWIPS animation of GOES-12 10.7 µm “IR window” images (above) revealed several bursts of convection as the canopy of... 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

There was a pilot report (or PIREP) received over Annette Island, Alaska (station identifier ANN) on 05 April 2009 which noted “stronger winds than forecast” at an altitude of 29,000 feet. The winds reported by the aircraft were from a direction of... 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