An extended period of hot, dry weather led to the development of multiple large bushfires across parts of southeastern Australia, some of which began to produce pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) clouds during the 15-16 January 2014 period. McIDAS images of MTSAT-2 0.68 µm visible channel and 3.75 µm shortwave IR channel data... Read More

McIDAS images of 1-km resolution GOES-13 (GOES-East) 0.63 µm visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed the development of widespread plumes of blowing dust across parts of southwestern Nebraska, northwestern Kansas, and eastern Colorado on 16 January 2014. Strong northerly... Read More

With ample illumination by moonlight (the Moon was in the Waxing Gibbous phase, at 98% of full), an AWIPS image of Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.7 µm Day/Night Band data was able to provide a “visible image at night” that showed the extensive ice... Read More

Looking at a global composite of IR imagery from the SSEC RealEarth web map server (above), Cyclone Ian (07 P) in the South Pacific Ocean was a rather compact storm — however, a time series plot of the Advanced Dvorak... Read More