Recent news articles (such as this one) have noted the unusual warmth present in the surface waters of the Great Lakes. Clear skies over the western Great Lakes on Sunday 8 August allowed MODIS instruments to measure sea surface temperatures, and the warm temperatures are plain to see. These warm temperatures... Read More
A large Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) initially developed over Nebraska and quickly grew in size as it propagated eastward across the Missouri River Valley region of the north-central US on 08 August 2010. AWIPS images of 1-km resolution POES AVHRR 0.63 µm visible and 10.8 µm IR channel data (above)... Read More
(Click image for larger version)GOES-15 is observing from a vantage point above the Equator at 89.5 W and GOES-13 is observing from a vantage point above the Equator at 75 W. The two satellites therefore have slightly different perspectives of cloud scenes over the southeast United States. These different perspectives... Read More
The image loop above shows GOES-15 11-micron imagery every half hour as Tropical Depression #4 in the Atlantic strengthened to become a minimal Tropical Storm, gaining the name Colin in the process. The infrared imagery shows periodic bursts of convection with brightness temperatures colder than -70 C near the center... Read More
