Hat tip to Mark Ruminski (NOAA/NESDIS) for directing our attention to a pair of airborne glacial silt plumes that were being drawn southward over the far northern Gulf of Alaska on 16 November 2013. McIDAS images of GOES-15 0.63 µm visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed... Read More
A rapidly occluding mid-latidude cyclone over the East Pacific Ocean on 11 November 2013 exhibited a classic “dry swirl” signature on McIDAS images of 4-km resolution GOES-15 6.5 µm water vapor channel data (above; click image to play animation).The dry swirl signature was... Read More
Super Typhoon Haiyan (31W) formed as a tropical depression at low latitudes in the West Pacific Ocean on 03 November 2013 — and by 18 UTC on 07 November was estimated to have peaked at an intensity of sustained 170 knot winds with gusts to 205 knots (Read More
The GOES-13 Sounder has been experiencing anomalies that manifest themselves as missing pixels since mid-Summer. The missing pixels apparently arise because of slight fluctuations in the speed of the sounder instrument filter wheel. The number of missing pixels per Sounder image peaked in late September, just after the Equinox, with... Read More
