Cyclone Cleopatra moved through the central Mediterranean Sea, causing flooding in Italy and Sardinia (BBC News Link) with northeastern Sardinia particularly hard hit. The infrared imagery from Meteosat-10, above, and the water vapor imagery, below, shows the slow movement of the entire system within the Mediterranean basin, as well as the strong... Read More

AWIPS II images of 375-meter resolution Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.64 µm visible channel data (above) showed the growth of new ice immediately offshore in the northwestern portion of Hudson Bay, Canada during the 17 November – Read More

A late-season tornadic outbreak occurred on Sunday November 17th over the Upper Midwest. The animation above shows MODIS Imagery — visible and 11 µm just as the severe weather was erupting over Illinois. Two different sets of severe weather reports are overlain: those... Read More

Mt. Etna, on Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea, erupted early in the morning on Nov 17th just before a Suomi/NPP overpass. The VIIRS Day/Night Band gives a clear view of the volcanic plume (and the light emitted by the lava in the caldera); thermal channels show a distinct hot spot: 360... Read More