Another one for the “What the heck is this?” blog category. Jeff Craven (SOO at the Milwaukee/Sullivan NWS forecast office) pointed out in an email:“The mid/high cloud deck in warm conveyor belt from OK into MO has an interesting strong subsident area over MO.... Read More
MODIS “true color” and “false color” Red/Green/Blue (RGB) images from the SSEC MODIS Today site (above) showed extensive areas of flooding along the Red River of the North on 29 March 2009. Widespread areas of inundated... Read More
The Mt. Redoubt volcano (located about 100 miles southwest of Anchorage, Alaska) produced a series of explosive eruptions beginning around 06:38 UTC on 23 March 2009. GOES-11 10.7 µm IR images (above) showed a few of the volcanic eruption clouds, which exhibited IR... Read More
The 10 February 2009 tornado outbreak was noteworthy for the production of strong supercells in and around metropolitan Oklahoma City at a time of year when climatology argues against their presence. This tornado outbreak has been discussed previously on this blog, which includes visible and infrared satellite animations as well as TPW, LI and ozone products from the GOES sounder. The present blog entry discusses a... Read More
