An optimization to the GOES-13 scanning schedule (discussed here) that provides, among other things, better coverage of the Caribbean Sea, became operation at 1600 UTC on May 6, 2014. Half-hourly imagery (in this case, 10.7 µm) from before the switch show intermittent coverage over the Caribbean Sea (at :15 and :45 minutes... Read More

 The Hazardous Weather Testbed (HWT) exercise (Click here for the HWT blog) is ongoing at the Storm Prediction Center.  One of the new products being tested by forecasters is the NOAA/CIMSS ProbSevere product. ProbSevere in the animation above highlighted a cell that produced hail. The AWIPS-2 readout suggests strong vertical growth, and strong glaciation, at... Read More