Two large fires burning in southern Colorado began to produce pyrocumulonimbus clouds and very large smoke plumes, as seen on GOES-13 0.63 µm visible channel (top panels) and 3.9 µm shortwave IR images (bottom panels)  on 19 June (above; click image to play... Read More

A tornado touched down just east of the Denver International Airport concourses at 20:21 UTC on 18 June 2013, producing a peak wind gust of 97 mph (before the wind instrumentation stopped transmitting data).  AWIPS images of Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.64 µm visible... Read More

McIDAS images of GOES-15 0.63 µm visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) revealed an uncharacteristically cloud-free view of most of the interior of Alaska on 17 June 2013. A large blocking ridge of high... Read More

GOES-13 (GOES-East) 0.63 µm visible channel and 3.9 µm shortwave IR channel images (above; click image to play animation) showed signals of a brief eruption (video 1 | video 2) of the Popocatépetl volcano in... Read More