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Archive: Mon Jun 2020

Thunderstorms across Interior Alaska and the Seward Peninsula

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-17 (GOES-West) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) showed thunderstorms developing across Interior Alaska and the Seward Peninsula on 01 June 2020. The high satellite viewing angle — 73.6 degrees at Fairbanks — helped to accentuate the rapid ascent/collapse of updrafts in developing thunderstorms.The corresponding GOES-17 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm)... Read More