GOES-12 visible (daytime) and 3.9 µm shortwave IR (night-time) images (above) showed a distinct swirl of clouds drifting northward across the Gulf of Mexico on 13 November – 14 November 2008. This cloud... Read More

GOES-12 10.7 µm IR imagery (above) showed Category 4 Hurricane Paloma just south of Cuba on 08 November 2008. A well-defined eye was present, surrounded by cold cloud top temperatures in the -70º to -80º C range (as cold as -81º C at... Read More

AWIPS images of the GOES-12 6.5 µm “water vapor channel” (above) displayed 3 impressive storms during the 05 November – 06 November 2008 period: a powerful blizzard in the northern Great Plains states, a strong “gale force” storm along the US East Coast,... Read More

GOES-13 visible imagery (above) revealed the rather large eye of Hurricane Norbert on 08 October 2008 — Norbert was a Category 4 storm at that time, and the eye appeared to be about 30-35 nautical... Read More