Snow fell over the southeastern United States, principally North and South Carolina, late on 20 February/early on 21 February 2020. This blog post, one in a series, investigates how gridded NUCAPS thermal fields perform in analyzing the rain/snow line. The snow totals are shown above, an image that was taken from this website... Read More

GOES-17 (GOES-West) “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images (above) showed the movement of numerous thunderstorms across American Samoa during the 16-18 February 2020 period. This deep convection was being forced by an active South Pacific Convergence Zone or “Monsoon Trough” (surface analysis) and the presence of Tropical Invest 96P (named TD07F by the Fiji Met Service / Nadi Tropical Cyclone Centre) northwest... Read More

GOES-16 (GOES-East) Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 µm) images (above) showed the circulations associated with a pair of Hurricane Force low (surface analyses) during the 13-15 February 2020 period. At the limb of the GOES-16 Full Disk view, plots of hourly surface wind revealed gusts in the 70-80 knots range at stations in... Read More

Prediction: This is the most beautiful satellite image you will see today. The above imagery, from the talented Rick Kohrs at the Space Science and Engineering Center, knits (seemingly seamlessly) together vertical local-noon swaths of multispectral visible/near-infrared Geostationary imagery, all using McIDAS-X. At some point in the near future, daily imagery will be created,... Read More