The animation above, showing the VIIRS Day/Night Band on Suomi NPP, as well as the GOES-R IFR Probability field that fuses together information from GOES-East and the Rapid Refresh, is offered as testimonial to the use of the Day/Night band in detecting the presence of low clouds. The Day/Night Band (that... Read More
GOES-14 came out of storage in mid-August for an annual north-south maneuver and for GOES-R Testing. While in normal mode, GOES-13 suffered an anomaly, and GOES-14 replaced GOES-13 temporarily as GOES-East before GOES-13 returned to service.After operating in SRSO-R mode for Hurricane Sandy, GOES-14 was switched off after the 1845 UTC image on 1 November 2012 (above). It will... Read More
A strong storm (with a central pressure near 950 hPa or 28.05″) had been intensifying over the Gulf of Alaska on 02 November 2012, and eventually began to enhibit a classic tightly-wrapped signature of a cyclone that had reached the occluded stage on POES AVHRR 0.86 µm visible channel and... Read More
Cold air and upslope flow on the western side of Hurricane Sandy contributed to some very impressive snowfall totals across parts of the central Appalachian Mountains in the eastern US (HPC storm summary)| HPC snowfall contour map). Once some of the... Read More
