An animation of 3-hourly water vapor channel image composites from AWIPS during the entire month of April 2007 (25.5 MB QuickTime animation; 1280×1024 screen resolution required) shows the diverse variety of synoptic scale features that affected the Northern Hemisphere during that... Read More

The Sweat Farm Road / Big Turnaround fire complex (that started on 16 April 2007) has become the largest wildfire in Georgia history, burning over 472,000 acres so far. A series of daily (21:45 UTC) GOES-12 visible images... Read More

According to news reports, algae blooms off the coast of California have been producing toxic levels of domoic acid that have recently killed large numbers of birds, sea lions, and dolphins. MODIS true color images centered over San Francisco, California (above; Read More

Severe convection developed ahead of a frontal boundary that was moving southward across the Rio Grande Valley late in the day on 24 April 2007. GOES-12 was in Rapid Scan Operations,... Read More