A spectacular gravity wave train (or “undular bore“) was captured on a sequence of GOES-12 visible images (above) as it propagated southward across the northwestern Gulf of Mexico on 15 March 2008; as many as 16 separate cloud bands were evident (denoting individual wave crests along the wave train). Because of severe convection... Read More
[Hat-tip to Gregg Gallina (NOAA/NESDIS Satellite Analysis Branch) for bringing this interesting case to our attention…] A false-color RGB image derived from 1-km resolution NOAA-18 AVHRR data (above) showed a long, narrow cloud plume streaming northwestward from Bennett Island (or “Ostrov Bennetta”, a tiny island... Read More
As a powerful winter storm intensified and produced heavy snowfall and blizzard conditions across much of the Ohio River Valley region of the US during the 07 March – 08 March 2008 period (Columbus, Ohio set new all-time records with a 20.4 inch storm total snowfall and 15.5 inches in 24 hours), a... Read More
AWIPS images of global water vapor composites (above) showed a large and powerful Pacific storm that was beginning to impact the US West Coast on 04 January 2008. This storm was tapping a very long plume of high total precipitable water (TPW) originating from the western Pacific Ocean, as seen in an... Read More
