A pair of circular contrails was seen along the coast of the Florida Panhandle in GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm), Near-Infrared “Cirrus” (1.37 µm) and Low-level Water Vapor (7.3 µm) images (above) on 18 December 2018. The contrail features were moving eastward at speed of 50-60 knots.GOES-16 Water Vapor weighting functions derived using 12 UTC rawinsonde data from... Read More
A large midlatitude cyclone moved from the southern High Plains to the Lower Mississippi Valley during the 13 December – 15 December 2018 period (surface analyses) — GOES-16 (GOES-East) Low-level Water Vapor (7.3 µm) images (above) showed the evolution of this system.The corresponding GOES-16 Water Vapor images with plots of hourly surface wind gusts are... Read More
A series of GCOM-W1 AMSR2 swaths during the period from 2256 UTC on 28 November to 1692 UTC on 30 November 2018 (above) showed the global coverage of Total Precipitable Water and Wind Speed products from that polar-orbiting satellite.A closer look just south of the Atlantic provinces of Canada (above) showed... Read More
Strong winds across southern Iran and Pakistan were lofting plumes of blowing sand/dust offshore over the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea during 01 November, 02 November and 03 November 2018 — a sequence of daily composites of True Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images from Terra MODIS, Aqua MODIS and... Read More
