A very large and very intense mid-latitude cyclone was responsible for a major tornado outbreak in the southeastern US, as well as widespread blizzard conditions across the northcentral US on 01 March 2007. AWIPS images of the GOES water vapor channel (above;... Read More

GOES-12 visible imagery (above; Java animation) revealed several large “ice floes” that were moving rapidly southwestward across southern Lake Michigan on 14 February 2007. Strong northeasterly winds associated with an... Read More

The lake-effect snowfall (LES) across the eastern Great Lakes region during the early February 2007 arctic outbreak has been phenomenal: as of 12 February, storm total snowfall amounts downwind of Lake Ontario have been as high as 141 inches in Redfield, New York (accumulations... Read More

As a follow-up to the previous blog post, cold air and lake-effect snow continued across the Great Lakes region on 05 February 2007. GOES-12 visible imagery (above; Java animation) revealed a narrow filament of Read More