Hat-tip to blog reader Boris Konon for sending us this in an email:Noted a large area of extremely cold cloud tops on a thunderstorm complex over northern Australia 17-23z 11/22. So cold it went off our IR color table scale we use here at WSI for MTSAT!MTSAT-1R Infrared (10.8... Read More
GOES-12 and GOES-13 visible images (above) showed the development of a narrow band of terrain-forced “standing wave clouds” over extreme northeastern Minnesota on 21 November 2008. Surface wind barbs (plotted in cyan) indicated that the surface winds were generally from the northwest... Read More
A cold and moist upslope (northeasterly) flow had pushed up against the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado during the pre-dawn hours on 20 November 2008 — a comparison of AWIPS images of the MODIS Fog/Stratus product and the topography (above) showed that the western edge of the... Read More
We created the “What the heck is this?” category just for the type of case that is shown here: GOES-13 visible images (above) displayed an interesting cluster of O-shaped clouds forming over the Eastern Pacific Ocean (near Isla Guadalupe, off the coast of Baja California) on Read More
