A line of training thunderstorms produced heavy rainfall in parts of southeastern South Dakota on the evening of 27 August 2015, with the highest rainfall amount being 7.52 inches just southwest of Sioux Falls (Public Information Statement). 4-km resolution GOES-13 (GOES-East) 10.7 µm Infrared images (above; click to play animation) showed the... Read More

August 28 2015 is the 10-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina achieving Category 5 status (on the Saffir-Simpson Scale) in the central Gulf of Mexico. The mp4 animation above (available here as a 490 megabyte animated gif, and on YouTube) shows the evolution of Katrina from a thunderstorm cluster in the Bahamas... Read More