A powerful winter storm brought historic snowfall amounts and widespread blizzard conditions to parts of Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas during the 25 February – 26 February 2013 period (see additional information from the NWS forecast offices... Read More

A comparison of AWIPS images of 1-km resolution MODIS 0.65 µm visible channel and 6.7 µm water vapor channel data (above) revealed the presence of widespread mountain waves across parts of the Mid-Atlantic states on 20 February 2013. Parallel bands of rotor clouds helped to identify the location of these waves (caused... Read More

McIDAS images of GOES-15 0.63 µm visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed the development of a mesoscale eddy immediately downwind of San Clemente Island off the coast of southern California on 17 February 2013. The eddy was helping to... Read More

McIDAS images of MTSAT-2 0.73 µm visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed a small polar low that was developing just south of the sea ice edge in the western Bering Sea on 15 February 2013. Widespread cloud streets could be seen streaming southwestward off the sea... Read More