The first Tropical Storm, Aletta, of the eastern Pacific Ocean basin has been named. One-minute imagery from a moveable Mesoscale Sector, above as an animated gif (or here as an mp4), shows a distinct low-or mid-level circulation center moving out from under higher clouds in the northeast quadrant of the... Read More
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
American Airlines Flight 1897 pushed back from the gate San Antonio (SAT) Texas at 6:45 PM CDT (and lifted off at 6:58 PM CDT) (2358 UTC) on 3 June, bound for Phoenix. An encounter with convection over southeastern New Mexico cause windshield and nosecone damage, and the flight landed safely at 8:03 PM (0203 UTC) MDT in El Paso, TX. Click here and here (from Twitter user Tom Podolec) for flight paths. The Flight Tracking Log from FlightAware suggests the damage... Read More
