NUCAPS data have been flowing into AWIPS 2 for months; in the recent past, these data started flowing into the NOAA CLASS data archive as well (click here for a tutorial on accessing the data). How can the NOAA CLASS output be displayed? This post will compare McIDAS-V plots to the data displayed using AWIPS-1, below.Suomi NPP overflew... Read More
A strong cold front moved southward over the High Plains of the US on Monday 10 November, and the strong winds produced a dust cloud that was apparent in GOES-13 visible imagery, above. The leading edge of the dust cloud in the satellite imagery indicated precisely the leading edge of... Read More
Super Typhoon Nuri has completed its transition to one of the strongest extratropical cyclones ever on record in the Bering Sea (Link; Shemya Island had a gust to 96 miles per hour!). The animation above (click here for an mp4, or view it on YouTube) covers the entire lifecycle, from birth out of the ITCZ over the... Read More
As seen on a sequence of 3-hourly GOES-15 (GOES-West) 6.5 µm water vapor images with satellite-derived atmospheric motion vector (AMV) winds from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site (above), a weak but persistent trough aloft over the Hawai’i region was acting to destabilize the atmosphere and... Read More
