As much as we enjoy evangelizing satellite imagery and demonstrating all its useful applications, there are situations when satellite imagery simply is not as helpful as we would hope it might be. On 11 July 2007, a lightning strike started a fire at the Sunoco Oil Refinery near West Deptford, New Jersey... Read More
A GOES-12 imager “decontamination procedure” was performed on 02 July 2007, where certain internal optical components were heated in an attempt to drive off contaminants that had been accumulating for several years. One obvious problem associated with this internal contamination was a “rollover” of warm 3.9µm IR brightness temperatures, such... Read More
An AWIPS image of the MODIS sea surface temperature (SST) product on 06 July 2007 (above) showed a nice view of the complex structure of the water temperatures on that relatively cloud-free day over the western Great Lakes– the MODIS product indicated that SST values were as warm as 81.5º F (red... Read More
Unusually hot conditions developed across parts of the Desert Southwest during the first week of July 2007 — daily maximum temperatures on 05 July included 127º F (53º C) at Death Valley, California, 122º F (50º C) at several locations within the Lake Mead/Lake Mohave basin region of Nevada/Arizona, 120º F (49º C) at Needles,... Read More
