GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (above) showed showed the development of thunderstorms over the northern Plains late in the evening on 05 June 2018 — these storm clusters exhibited upscale growth and merged into a large Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) over North Dakota and South Dakota during the... Read More

The Split Window Difference field (SWD, the 10.3 µm brightness temperature minus the 12.3 µm brightness temperature) can be used to identify regions of moisture and dust in the atmosphere.  (Click here for a previous blog post).  On 5 June 2018, the SWD showed a strong gradient over the upper Midwest, with... Read More