A major flooding event occurred in the Beijing, China area on 21 July 2012, as the heaviest rainfall in over 60 years caused at least 77 fatalaties, cancelled over 500 airport flights, and forced more than 65,000 people to be evacuated. Much of the city averaged around 7-9 inches of... Read More
A comparison of AWIPS images of 375-meter resolution (projected onto a 1-km AWIPS grid) Suomi NPP VIIRS 11.45 µm IR channel data with the corresponding 0.7 µm VIIRS Day/Night Band (above) showed a large Mesocale Convective System (MCS) with an expansive cold cloud shield (exihibiting IR brightness temperatures as cold... Read More
A comparison of AWIPS images of Suomi NPP VIIRS 11.45 µm IR, 0.7 µm Day/Night Band, and 3.74 µm shortwave IR data (above) showed (1) a pair of strong thunderstorms over the Montana/North Dakota/South Dakota border region, with cold cloud top IR brightness temperatures and excellent illumination of the overshooting... Read More
An AWIPS image of 1-km resolution POES AVHRR 10.8 µm IR channel data with overlays of cumulative SPC storm reports (above) showed a strong mesoscale convective system (MCS) as it was moving southeastward across northern Indiana at 18:23 UTC or 12:23 PM local time on Read More
