By animating daily NOAA GOES-16 ABI Full Disk visible imagery, how the Earth is illuminated over time can be seen. For example, the minimum in incoming solar radiation in the Northern Hemisphere associated with the Winter Solstice. For details, see “What is a Solstice?” by SciJinks. Or this NOAA https://www.noaa.gov/education/news/share-your-solstice-sunset-with-noaa-education post.A Full Disk visible... Read More
Suomi NPP VIIRS Infrared Window (11.45 µm) images (above) showed widespread ice leads in the Beaufort Sea during the 18 December – 20 December 2020 period. Some existing leads increased in width and/or length as they migrated westward, while some new leads were seen to form as land-fast ice fractured off... Read More
A storm dropped historic snow amounts over parts of northern Pennsylvania, upstate New York and New England on 16-17 December 2020 (Places around Binghamton NY, for example, received more than 40″ of snow as shown in this map from this site. Click here to see the Binghamton Radar loop during the storm). ... Read More
GOES-16 (GOES-East) Mid-level (6.9 µm) Water Vapor images (above) showed 2 important signatures associated with the an intense Nor’easter that moved northeastward along the US East Coast during the 16 December – 17 December 2020 period (surface analyses): (1) the development of a baroclinic leaf signature related to the initial batch of heavy snowfall, and (2)... Read More
