The Pfeiffer Fire (InciWeb | Wildfire Today) began to burn in the Big Sur area of central California just after 08:00 UTC or Midnight local time on 16 December 2013. McIDAS images of 4-km resolution GOES-15 3.9 µm... Read More

McIDAS images of GOES-13 0.63 µm visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) revealed a well-defined mesovortex moving southeastward across the southern part of Lake Superior during the day on 15 December 2013. As the feature approached the Upper Peninsula of... Read More

On the morning of 14 December 2013, GOES-13 0.63 µm visible channel images (above; click image to play animation) showed what appeared to be a plume of re-suspended volcanic ash moving northward from the region of the Cordón Caulle volcano in Chile. As the airborne ash plume begain to disperse... Read More

A large and strong cyclone was intensifying in the North Atlantic Ocean just south of Greenland on 12 December 2013. GOES-13 6.5 µm water vapor channel images with 06 UTC, 12 UTC, 18 UTC, and 00 UTC surface analyses and surface reports (above) showed that the central pressure of the... Read More