Severe thunderstorms developed along and ahead of a cold front that was moving across the Northeastern US on 15 May 2018. 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) showed the progression of these storms — and SPC storm reports (plotted in red, and parallax-corrected to align with the corresponding cloud-top feature) included an... Read More

Fires that developed over the plains of Saskatchewan, near Meadow Lake in west-central Saskatchewan, and near Prince Albert in central Saskatchewan, showed up well in Visible and Infrared imagery, shown above.  A wind shift that occurred as the fires burned changed the direction of the smoke plume.  Prince Albert had visibilities that dropped... Read More