A comparison of 250-meter resolution MODIS true-color and false-color Red/Green/Blue (RGB) images from the SSEC MODIS Today site (above) revealed an interesting snow cover feature (snow appears as white on the true-color image, and cyan on the false-color image) surrounding a small body of water... Read More

AWIPS images of 1-km resolution Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.7 µm Day/Night Band data (above) served as “visible images a night” to reveal the formation of a mesoscale vortex that was moving southward over the northern portion of Lake Superior (northwest of Caribou Island, station identifier CWCI) at 07:01 UTC (2:01... Read More

Strong westerly to northwesterly winds in the wake of a departing winter storm were aiding in the formation of widespread mountain waves along and downwind of the Appalachian Mountains on 27 December 2012. A comparison of AWIPS images of 1-km resolution Suomi NPP... Read More

A large and intense storm system moved across the southern US on 25 December 2012, producing a wide variety of weather that included heavy snow from Texas and Oklahoma into Arkansas (HPC storm summary), along with hail, damaging winds,... Read More