The first Nor’easter storm of the 2012-2013 winter season (as seen on 07 November 2012 MODIS images) produced snowfall amounts as high as 13 inches in parts of New Jersey and Connecticut (HPC storm summary). After the clouds had cleared in the wake of the departing system, the areal extent of the remaining snow on the... Read More

The animation above, showing the VIIRS Day/Night Band on Suomi NPP, as well as the GOES-R IFR Probability field that fuses together information from GOES-East and the Rapid Refresh, is offered as testimonial to the use of the Day/Night band in detecting the presence of low clouds. The Day/Night Band (that... Read More

Cold air and upslope flow on the western side of Hurricane Sandy contributed to some very impressive snowfall totals across parts of the central Appalachian Mountains in the eastern US (HPC storm summary)| HPC snowfall contour map). Once some of the... Read More

As seen in other examples posted on this blog, the Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.7 µm Day/Night Band (DNB) is useful for detecting city lights at night. A comparison of “pre-Sandy” (a cloud-free night way back on 31 August 2012) and “post-Sandy” (01 November 2012) DNB images displayed using McIDAS-V (above)... Read More