Large wildfires began to burn in parts of Quebec, Canada during the last few days of May 2010. AWIPS images of  1-km resolution POES AVHRR 0.63 µm visible channel and  3.7 µm shortwave IR channel data (above) revealed several clusters of hot pixels (yellow to red pixels) associated with... Read More

We received the following in an email from Dan St. Jean at the NWS forecast office in Gray/Portland Maine, who also supplied us with an animation of color-enhanced GOES-13 0.63 µm visible images (above) from 26... Read More

During 24 May – 25 May 2010, a northward flux of unseasonably warm (daily high temperatures in the 80s and 90s F) and humid (dew points in the middle 60s to low 70s F) air moved northward across the Great Lakes region. However, an AWIPS image of the POES AVHRR Sea Surface Temperature... Read More

A comparison of 250-meter resolution MODIS Red/Green/Blue (RGB) true color (using Bands 1/4/3) and false color (using Bands 7/2/1) images from the SSEC MODIS Today site (above) showed the main portion of the surface oil slick in the northern Gulf of Mexico on 24 May 2010. This was Day 34 following the deadly explosion... Read More