Very cold surface air temperatures occurred in northeastern Montana and northwestern North Dakota on the morning of 08 February 2019 — with official lows of -50ºF near Antelope and Four Buttes in Montana and -47ºF at Bottineau in North Dakota (and according to MesoWest, -49ºF was registered at a Department of Transportation... Read More
* GOES-17 images shown here are preliminary and non-operational *Transient pockets of cloud-top waves were evident on GOES-17 Low-level (7.3 µm), Mid-level (6.9 µm) and Upper-level (6.2 µm) Water Vapor images (above) north of Hawai’i on 06 February 2019. Some of the waves were located along the tops of convective cloud features, while... Read More
One of my favorite things to watch are upper-level +PV anomalies moving offshore the east coast & sparking surface cyclogenesis. We had a classic example last night, where a pre-existing baroclinic zone (thanks to the Gulf Stream) rapidly evolved into a striking occluded low. pic.twitter.com/74ylYWj5z8 — Philippe Papin (@pppapin)... Read More
The Korean Meteorological Administration (KMA) has released its first true-color image created with data from the AMI sensor on the GEOKOMPSAT-2A (GK2A) satellite that was launched in late 2018. This first image from GK2A is experimental and preliminary, just like the initial images from Himawari-8, -9, GOES-16 and GOES-17 were... Read More
