A meteor entered the Earth’s atmosphere over the Bering Sea (east of Kamchatka) on 18 December 2018. Himawari-8 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) showed a bright streak at 23:50 UTC — and a dark-colored debris trail was also evident northwest of this bright streak, which subsequently drifted northeastward. Signatures... Read More
Preliminary Damage Results for Port Orchard Tornado have been released. Survey finds EF-2 #tornado damage from Tuesday December 18th. Details in graphic and at: https://t.co/fnaZxgYG6U #wawx #PortOrchardTornado pic.twitter.com/jxpsBgkmgC — NWS Seattle (@NWSSeattle) December 19, 2018 * GOES-17 images shown here are preliminary and non-operational *A rare December tornado occurred in Port Orchard, Washington... Read More
A pair of circular contrails was seen along the coast of the Florida Panhandle in GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm), Near-Infrared “Cirrus” (1.37 µm) and Low-level Water Vapor (7.3 µm) images (above) on 18 December 2018. The contrail features were moving eastward at speed of 50-60 knots.GOES-16 Water Vapor weighting functions derived using 12 UTC rawinsonde data from... Read More
