A strong tornado (rated a high-end EF-2) touched down near Pierson, Manitoba at around 0130 UTC on 28 July or 8:30 pm local time on 27 July (Press Report) and persisted until about 0355 UTC or 10:55 pm local time (near Virden Manitoba). The animation above shows GOES-15 (left) and GOES-13 (right) Infrared imagery... Read More

Wildfires continued to burn across parts of the interior of Alaska during the 22-25 July 2015 period, as is shown in GOES-15 (GOES-West) 0.63 µm visible channel and 3.9 µm shortwave IR images (above; click to play animation; also available as an MP4 movie file). Also of interest is: (1) the diurnal... Read More

EUMETSAT Meteosat-10 6.25 µm water vapor channel images (above; click image to play animation; also available as an MP4 movie file) showed the well-defined circulation associated with an unusually strong (for July) storm centered just north of the Netherlands on 25 July 2015. Some locations experienced hurricane-force surface winds with this storm... Read More

Shown above (click image to play animation; also available as an MP4 movie file) is a 4-panel comparison of GOES-15 (GOES-West, left panels) and GOES-13 (GOES-East, right panels) 0.63 µm visible channel images (top) and 3.9 µm shortwave IR images (bottom) which showed the development of the the long smoke plume and... Read More