GOES-12 visible channel images (above) showed advection fog that developed over Lake Michigan during the day on 07 May 2009. As pointed out on the US Air Quality (aka The Smog Blog) site,  this fog... Read More

GOES-11 was placed into Super Rapid Scan Operations (SRSO) on 05 May 2009, as a test for support of the upcoming VORTEX2 field experiment. During SRSO, images are available at 1-minute intervals for short periods of time. The GOES-11... Read More

AWIPS images of the MIMIC Total Precipitable Water (TPW) product (above) showed the presence of  long, narrow  filaments of moisture (often described as “atmospheric rivers“) that were moving across the North Pacific Ocean and the North... Read More

AWIPS images of the GOES-12 10.7 µm “IR window” channel (above) showed the development of severe thunderstorms that moved across the Dallas/Fort Worth metro area in northeast Texas on 02 May 2009. Cloud top temperatures quickly cooled into the -70º to... Read More