Unusually dry air over the Upper Midwest
GOES-16 (GOES-East) Low-level (7.3 µm) and Mid-level (6.9 µm) Water Vapor images (above) revealed a southwest-to-northeast oriented band of anomalously-dry air along the northwest periphery of a slow-moving low pressure center over the eastern US on 20 April 2019. The hourly dew point dropped to 10ºF at Chicago O’Hare, with a Relative Humidity value of 12%... Read More