A strong “Nor’easter” winter storm impacted much of the northeastern US on 12 January – 13 January 2011. The storm exhibited a nice presentation on AWIPS images of the GOES-13 6.5 µm “water vapor channel” data... Read More

A comparison of MODIS Red/Green/Blue (RGB) “true color” (created using Bands 1/4/3) and “false color” (created using Bands 7/2/1) images from the SSEC MODIS Today site (above) showed a well-defined single lake-effect snow (LES) band running down the length of Lake Michigan on 08 January 2011. On the false color image, snow cover, ice, and glaciated clouds appeared as cyan-colored... Read More

McIDAS images of GOES-11 0.65 µm visible channel data (above) showed a persistent Tule fog event across much of the Central Valley of California on 05 January 2011. The northern portion of the fog eventually began to erode... Read More

A strong Pacific storm system moved through the southwestern US in late December 2010, producing snowfall amounts as high as 30 inches in northern Arizona. On 01 January 2011, a 250-meter resolution MODIS true color Red/Green/Blue (RGB) image (viewed using Google Earth) from the SSEC MODIS Today site (above) showed the correlation of elevation and snow cover across the Grand... Read More