Mostly clear skies over the Great Lakes and a near-Full Moon allowed the Suomi NPP VIIRS Day/Night Band (DNB) imager to record the remaining extent of ice on the five Great Lakes with remarkable clarity at night.Portions of Georgian Bay (Lake Huron), Green Bay (Lake Michigan) and southeastern Lake Superior... Read More

A Total Lunar Eclipse occurred over North America early in the morning of 15 April 2014. The resultant lack of lunar illumination had a profound impact on the “visible image at night” quality of the VIIRS 0.7 µm Day/Night Band imagery during the Suomi NPP satellite Read More

Strong winds helped a wildfire to spread very quickly through a portion of the city of Valparaíso, Chile — this fire forced large-scale evacuations, destroyed around 2000 homes, and was responsible for 12 fatalities. McIDAS images of 4-km resolution GOES-13 3.9 µm shortwave IR channel data (above)... Read More

Numerous grassland fires began to burn across parts of eastern Kansas (and also extreme northeastern Oklahoma) during the afternoon hours on 11 April 2014. AWIPS images of 4-km resolution GOES-13 3.9 µm shortwave IR channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed... Read More