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Archive: Dec 2013

Orographic cirrus over Colorado and Wyoming

AWIPS images of 4-km resolution GOES-13 10.7 µm IR channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed the development of a large shield of orographic cirrus clouds immediately downwind (to the east of) the high terrain of the Rocky Mountains in eastern Colorado and southeastern Wyoming on Read More