An intriguing fog event took place over Lake Superior on Sunday, 15 February. On a day that was otherwise clear and unseasonably warm, fog crept westward as though it was trying to cover the entire lake. The following animation shows the entire day of GOES-19 true color imagery as viewed... Read More
While tropical beaches may be the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about Hawaii, it’s important to remember that the Big Island of Hawai’i has significant elevation. The highest point, Mauna Kea, is over 13,800 feet above sea level. Even though it’s the tropics, this is a high... Read More
As a low pressure system was located off the US East Coast on 07 February 2026, a so-called “Norlun Trough” (named after meteorologists Nogueira and Lundstedt) or “inverted trough” extended northwestward from the offshore low center to southern New England (above).10 hours of 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Infrared images (below) showed the... Read More
48 hours of 5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Water Vapor images that included hourly plots of surface weather type (above) showed the development of a winter storm that produced up to 19.5″ of snowfall and wind gusts as high as 64 mph in eastern North Carolina (storm summary) — and even... Read More
