AWIPS images of Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.7 µm Day/Night Band and 11.45 µm IR channel data (above) showed a thunderstorm complex that stretched from northern Missouri to southern Illinois at 08:23 UTC (3:23 AM local time) on 25 September 2012. The IR image revealed a number of cold overshooting tops... Read More

The GOES-13 (GOES-East) satellite suffered anomalies that forced it to be placed into standby mode late in the day (at 21:22 UTC) on 23 September 2012 (NOAA NESDIS notification message). The GOES-15 (GOES-West) satellite was then placed into Full... Read More

Clear skies and light winds allowed for the formation of fog in river valleys of Pennsylvania and New York in the early morning of 20 September 2012. The animation above shows the traditional method of detecting fog or low stratus from satellite (GOES-East, MODIS on Aqua and VIIRS on Suomi/NPP):... Read More

McIDAS images of GOES-15 (GOES-West) and GOES-13 (GOES-East) 0.63 µm visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) revealed smoke plumes and pyrocumulus clouds associated with a pair of large wildfires that were burning in western Wyoming on 15 September 2012. Because... Read More