Strong winds behind a storm moving along the United States/Canada border on 23 December 2020 led to blizzard warnings over much of the Northern Plains (link). How easily was the blowing snow detected by satellite? The animation above shows the Day Snow Fog RGB from 1416 through 1751 UTC on 23 December 2020. During this time over North Dakota, low clouds... Read More
GOES-17 (GOES-West) Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images (above) displayed the thermal anomaly (cluster of hot pixels) and brief volcanic cloud resulting from an eruption of the Kilauea volcano on the Big Island of Hawai’i on 21 December 2020. The coldest cloud-top 10.35 µm infrared brightness temperature... Read More
Suomi NPP VIIRS Infrared Window (11.45 µm) images (above) showed widespread ice leads in the Beaufort Sea during the 18 December – 20 December 2020 period. Some existing leads increased in width and/or length as they migrated westward, while some new leads were seen to form as land-fast ice fractured off... Read More
A storm dropped historic snow amounts over parts of northern Pennsylvania, upstate New York and New England on 16-17 December 2020 (Places around Binghamton NY, for example, received more than 40″ of snow as shown in this map from this site. Click here to see the Binghamton Radar loop during the storm). ... Read More
