1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) Day Cloud Phase Distinction RGB images (above) displayed a narrow band of glaciated (brighter shades of green) clouds that produced snow squalls as it moved rapidly eastward across Pennsylvania on 19 February 2022. Due to the fast motion of the snow squall band, resultant snowfall amounts were generally 1 inch or... Read More
A storm named Eunice has developed over the British Isles and is causing severe winds, up to 122 mph observed at the surface. The storm is associated with a very active jet stream in the North Atlantic. Eunice follows another storm, Dudley, that hit England, Ireland, and Scotland on Wednesday... Read More
GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) showed a string of mesovortices over the eastern portion of Lake Superior, along with a small, isolated mesovortex just offshore in the western portion of Lake Superior on 13 February 2022. Increasing ice coverage was also seen along the edges of the lake.Farther to the... Read More
GOES-16 (GOES-East) Day Snow-Fog RGB images (above) showed the signature of widespread horizontal convective rolls — which highlighted areas where blowing snow was creating ground blizzard conditions — across parts of eastern North Dakota and far western Minnesota on 11 February 2022. The elongated bands of blowing snow were more concentrated where they were... Read More
