McIDAS images of 4-km resolution GOES-15 6.5 µm water vapor channel data (above; click image to play 3-day animation) showed a plume of tropical moisture being drawn into the circulation of a large cut-off low that was part of a “Rex block” that had formed over the... Read More

The first “official” 0ºF (-18ºC) temperature of the 2011/2012 winter season in Alaska was recorded at Anaktuvuk Pass on 12 October 2011. AWIPS images of “4-km resolution” GOES-11 10.7 µm IR data (above) indicated that portions of the Brooks Range in northern Alaska were... Read More

A significant rain and snow event occurred across parts of southeastern Wyoming and western Nebraska on 08 October 2011 (see NWS Cheyenne story) — snowfall amounts as high as 12.0 inches were reported near Cheyenne , Wyoming with 2.73 inches of rain reported farther to the... Read More

A previous blog post discussed the sediment features seen in southern Lake Michigan in early October of 2011. However, looking a bit farther to the east over Lake Erie several days later, a 09 October 2011 comparison of 250-meter resolution MODIS true color and false color Red/Green/Blue (RGB) images from the Read More