Strong winds associated with a cold frontal passage created large areas of blowing dust across parts of New Mexico and Texas on 23 March 2013. The maximum wind gusts were as high as 82 mph in New... Read More

On March 22, 2013 at about 7:53 pm EDT people in the mid-Atlantic states and beyond witnessed a bright, multi-colored fireball caused by a boulder-sized bolide streak across the night sky from the northwest to the southeast.  Meteors have... Read More

AWIPS images of Suomi NPP VIIRS 11.45 µm IR channel and 0.7 µm Day/Night Band images (above) showed a night-time view of an intense mid-latitude cyclone that was centered just east of the Canadian Maritimes at 06:09 UTC or 2:09 AM local time on Read More

The vernal equinox — commonly referred to as the “first day of Spring” in the Northern Hemisphere — occurred at 11:02 UTC on 20 March 2013. A GOES-13 full disk visible image at 11:45 UTC (above) showed the cloud features on the sun-lit portions of the Earth at that time,... Read More