AWIPS images of 4-km resolution GOES-13 6.5 µm water vapor channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed the middle-tropospheric circulation and cloud features associated with the large storm system which brought heavy snow, heavy rainfall, and severe thunderstorms to much of the central US on Read More

 Thick smoke from a 62-acre brush fire that was burning in the Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park just southwest of Gainesville, Florida (station identifier KGNV) was blamed for causing a deadly multiple-vehicle crash along Interstate 75 at around 07:45 UTC (3:45 am local time) on Read More

Record cold continued across the interior of Alaska, with Fairbanks reaching a minimum temperature of -50º F on 28 January 2012 and -51º F on 29 January 2012. These were the first -50º F temperatures at Fairbanks since 2006 (NWS Fairbanks public information statements). The coldest temperature reported was -65º F at Galena and... Read More

A comparison of AWIPS images of 1-km resolution Aqua MODIS 11.0 µm “IR Window” channel data (both grayscale, and color-enhanced) and the corresponding MODIS “Fog/stratus product” (above) showed some areas of fog and/or stratus cloud over the eastern half of Hudson Bay, Canada on 26 January... Read More