AWIPS images of Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.64 µm visible channel and 1.61 µm near-IR channel data (above) showed that there was a wide ice-free passage leading from the Bering Sea northward and northeastward through the Chukchi Sea toward Barrow, Alaska (station identifier PABR) on 14 June 2012. On the visible... Read More

Clear skies over the upper Midwest on the morning of 13 June 2012 allowed the MODIS instrument on board Aqua and the AVHRR instrument on board NOAA-19 to sense the surface temperature of Lakes Michigan and Superior. Which instrument yielded observations that were closer to those recorded in situ by... Read More

McIDAS images of GOES-13 0.63 µm visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) revealed the development of a very broad and dense smoke plume emanating from a large wildfire that was burning just northwest of Goose Bay, Labrador (station identifier CYYR)  in far eastern Canada on Read More

Parts of far northeastern Manitoba, Canada received significant snowfall on 11 June 2011, with 20 cm (7.9 inches) falling at Gillam (station identifier CYGX). On the following day (12 June 2012), Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.64 µm... Read More