Only 11 days after the devastating EF-5 tornado that struck Moore, Oklahoma, another round of severe weather brought tornadoes (including the EF-5 El Reno tornado) large hail (up to 2.5 inches in diameter), damaging winds (gusts as... Read More
McIDAS images of GOES-14 0.63 µm visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed Tropical Storm Barbara as it intensified to Category 1 hurricane shortly before making landfall along the coast of the Gulf of Tehuantepec in southeastern Mexico on Read More
A sequence of AWIPS images of Suomi NPP VIIRS 1.61 µm near-IR “snow/ice discrimination channel” data covering the period from 13:47 UTC on 27 May to 23:24 UTC on 28 May 2013 (above) showed the effects of ice jam flooding along the Yukon River in the vicinity of Galena, Alaska... Read More
An unusual late-season nor’easter storm produced heavy rainfall (as much as 6.14 inches at Whiting, Maine) and heavy snow (as much as 13.4 inches at Mount Mansfield in Vermont and 34 inches at Whiteface Mountain, New York) during the 24 May – 26 May 2013 period. McIDAS images of GOES-14 6.5 µm water... Read More
