Tropical Storm Tomas became the 19th named storm of the 2010 Atlantic tropical cyclone season on 29 September 2010 (NHC advisory archive). The path of Tomas from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site can be seen above, along with a plot of the Advanced Dvorak Technique (ADT) intensity estimate (below) which showed that there were a number... Read More

A comparison of a 250-meter resolution MODIS true color Red/Green/Blue (RGB) image (created using Bands 1/4/3) with the corresponding MODIS false color image (created using Bands 7/2/1) obtained from the SSEC MODIS Today site confirmed that the brighter white area seen in far north-central Wisconsin on 05 November 2010 was a patch of snow... Read More