AWIPS images of the 1-km resolution MODIS fog/stratus product and the 4-km resolution GOES-11 fog/stratus product (above) revealed the presence of fog and stratus clouds that extended fairly far inland across much of southern California around 06 UTC on 08 September 2010... Read More
Tropical Storm Igor has formed in the far eastern Atlantic, just south of the Cape Verde Islands. GOES-12 imagery from today (above) shows a sheared system with persistent and abundant convection southwest of a low-level swirl of clouds. (That low-level swirl is most evident in the 1145 UTC image). Igor formed just... Read More
GOES-13 0.63 µm visible images (above) showed the large circulation of Tropical Storm Hermine as it moved inland across Texas during the day on 07 September 2010.A closer view of the well-defined circulation of Hermine was available using GOES-13 0.63 µm visible images (above) and GOES-13 10.7 µm IR images (below) from... Read More
A wildfire started in the Fourmile Canyon area northwest of Boulder, Colorado on the morning of 06 September 2010 — and strong winds (gusting to around 45 mph) in the wake of a cold frontal passage helped the fire to spread very... Read More
