A major outbreak of severe thunderstorms along a strong cold frontal boundary swept eastward across much of the southeastern US on 22 January – 23 January 2012, producing widespread damaging winds, large hail, and tornadoes (Read More

We received the following email from Ken Waters of the National Weather Service forecast office in Phoenix, Arizona:I noticed something interesting in this morning’s visible imagery off the Baja California coast. Here’s a link: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B2ktDMIN5qWfODI2OTYzYjgtZjJkMS00MTU5LTk2ODctYzdhNzY5M2Y2MWIx I’m looking at the apparent wave pattern that’s going “upstream” towards the northeast whereas the low... Read More

We received the following in an email message from Paul Fuentes at the National Weather Service forecast office at Key West, Florida:“Just though you might be interested in a peculiar little feature we noticed at the WFO Key West on AWIPS from GOES-13 IR imagery on 4/23/11 starting at about... Read More

McIDAS images of GOES-11 0.65 µm visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed an interesting “dark plume” feature that was moving in an arc from far northeastern Russia, across the East Siberian Sea and Chukchi Sea, and finally over far northwestern Alaska on 16 March – 17... Read More