GOES-12 6.5 micrometer “water vapor channel” imagery (above) revealed a pronounced warming/drying signature (darker orange colors) as Hurricane Kyle was beginning the transition to an extratropical system on 28 September 2008. GOES-12 water vapor brightness... Read More

The remnants of Hurricane Ike moved rapidly northeastward across the Ohio River Valley region on 14 September 2008. AWIPS images of the GOES-12 visible channel (above) with an overlay of METAR surface reports showed that a large number of locations reported very... Read More

Hurricane Ike (satellite montage) made landfall as a Category 2 storm during the early hours of 13 September 2008. The comparison of GOES-12 and GOES-13 10.7 µm IR images (above)... Read More

GOES-11 continued in Super Rapid Scan Operations (SRSO) mode on 11 September 2008, with visible imagery (above) showing additional convective bursts around the eye of the storm.GOES-12 water vapor channel imagery (below) revealed an interesting series of middle- to upper-tropospheric “gravity waves”... Read More