Unusual rains causing flooding and mudslides hit southern California (San Diego in particular) on 18-19 July 2015. The two-day rain total (1.69″) at Lindbergh Field broke the monthly record for July (previous record, 1.29″) and exceeded the January-April 2015 rainfall (the typical wet season) at the station. The San Diego... Read More

EUMETSAT Meteosat-10 High Resolution Visible (0.8 µm) images (above; click to play animation; also available as an MP4 movie file) revealed the hazy signature of what appeared to be a ribbon of smoke aloft being transported eastward across the North Atlantic Ocean by the circulation of a large area of low pressure... Read More

Suomi NPP VIIRS (above; toggle with Google maps) and Aqua MODIS (below; toggle with Google maps) true-color Red/Green/Blue (RGB) images visualized using SSEC RealEarth showed 2 smoke plumes from wildfires burning in Greece on 17 July 2015. These fires were causing evacuations in some areas, according to the Wildfire Today site.Surface observations around the time of the images... Read More

On 07 June 2007, severe thunderstorms moved through the Upper Midwest (blog post on that event), spawning strong tornadoes; from the SPC Storm Reports comments:HUNDREDS OF TREES DOWN NORTH OF ZOAR. (GRB) NUMEROUS TREES DOWN OF 1 FOOT DIAMETER AND GREATER. TRACK WAS APPROXIMATELY 1/4 MILE IN LENGTH AND 125 YARDS WIDE (MQT)Terra MODIS data on 09 June 2007 (in the image... Read More