A large winter storm spread heavy snowfall, sleet, and freezing rain from Texas and Oklahoma to the East Coast of the US during the 28-30 January 2010 period. AWIPS images of the MODIS visible channel and a MODIS false-color Red/Green/Blue (RGB) image using the visible and the 2.1 µm near-IR... Read More
A story on the National Weather Service Milwaukee/Sullivan website highlighted the appearance of ice on Lake Michigan on MODIS imagery on 28 January 2010. A comparison of AWIPS images of the 1-km resolution MODIS visible channel and a false color Red/Green/Blue (RGB) image (above) confirms that the brighter features seen on the visible image over the... Read More
The GOES-13 satellite was brought out of on-orbit storage on 27 January 2010 — and a comparison of the 19 channels of the sounder instrument on GOES-12 and GOES-13 (above) shows an improvement in the noise characteristics that were beginning to plague the GOES-12 sounder in late 2009.The imager instruments on GOES-12 (above) and GOES-13 (below)... Read More
A series of powerful storms affected the southwestern US during the 18-23 January 2010 period, which resulted in record rainfall and snowfall in parts of northern Arizona. Flagstaff recorded 54.2 inches of snow, which was their 2nd largest storm total snowfall on record. A 250-meter resolution MODIS true color image... Read More
