The High Park Fire was started by lightning early in the morning on 09 June 2012, approximately 15 miles west of Fort Collins (InciWeb). Daily comparisons of 250-meter resolution MODIS true color and false color Red/Green/Blue (RGB) images from the Read More

AWIPS images of GOES-13 6.5 µm water vapor channel data with overlays of CRAS model 500 hPa geopotential height (above; click image to play animation) showed the circulation of an upper-level low over the western Gulf of Mexico coastal region, with a southwesterly flow of moisture aiding... Read More

Parts of the north-central US (namely, western and central North Dakota and South Dakota, and far eastern Montana and Wyoming) received upwards of 0.5 to 1.0 inch of rainfall (Radar estimated precipitation | Regional temperature/precipitation data) in association with a... Read More

AWIPS images of the 4-km resolution GOES-13 11-3.9 µm brightness temperature difference (BTD) or “legacy fog/stratus product” (above; click image to play animation) began to display a signal of increasing coverage of fog and/or stratus across parts of the Allegheny Plateau region of New York and Pennsylvania during the pre-dawn... Read More