The GOES-13 Sounder has been experiencing an increased number of unexpected scan line lengths. This was originally detected on 1 July 2013 and it has become more common since 12 September 2013. The anomaly is manifest in the data by occasional pixel gaps in all channels of the Sounder images.... Read More
Hurricane Ingrid had been going though a period of slow intensification (ADT plot) off the Gulf Coast of Mexico during the overnight hours on 14 September –
Heavy rain fell over much of the Front Range of Colorado overnight, with Boulder receiving an all-time 24-hour total of 9.08 inches (Weather Underground blog). Numerous CoCoRAHS locations in Boulder County reported 24-hour rainfall amounts in excess of 6″, in a region where monthly precipitation records are close... Read More
An AWIPS image of the Suomi NPP VIIRS 11.45 – 3.74 µm IR brightness temperature difference “fog/stratus product” at 10:26 UTC or 2:26 AM local time on 11 September 2013 (above) revealed a relatively narrow tongue of stratus cloud (darker orange to red... Read More
