Tropical systems over the western Pacific are in a region where surface observations are few and far between. Imagers on geostationary satellites, such as the Advanced Himawari Imagery (AHI) on Himawari-8, shown above, capably track such systems, but sounders do a much better job diagnosing the atmosphere through and towards... Read More
GOES-16 viewed the development of a house fire over rural Winnebago County in Nekimi Township, west of Lake Winnebago on late Sunday night 24 February 2019. The animation above shows warm pixel developing starting at 0439 UTC. One-minute imagery was available because the county falls within the northern part of... Read More
A large and rapidly-deepening midlatitude cyclone (surface analyses) moved northeastward across the Midwest and Great Lakes on 24 February 2019. GOES-16 (GOES-East) Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 µm) images (above) showed the storm circulation that featured a pronounced dry slot — strong winds were widespread, with gusts of 60 knots or higher occurring... Read More
A toggle between Observed Precipitation and Percent of Normal Precipitation for the 30-day period ending at 12 UTC on 24 February 2019 (above) showed a large area that received 10-15 inches of rainfall — which was 200-400% of normal — across the Lower Mississippi River and Tennessee River Valleys.A before/after... Read More
