GOES-16 (GOES-East) True Color RGB images created using Geo2Grid (above) revealed multiple plumes of blowing dust — which had their sources in drought-stricken portions of New Mexico and the Texas/Oklahoma Panhandles — moving across Texas in the wake of a cold frontal passage on 30 January 2021. Other features of interest included an undular bore... Read More
Geo2Grid is a scripting tool that accesses various Python packages to display Geostationary Satellite data, described on this blog before here, here and here (Polar2Grid is a similar package for Low Earth Orbit satellite data). The animation above shows GOES-16 Band-13 (Clean Window, 10.3 µm) infrared data for an hour... Read More
GOES-16 (GOES-East) Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 µm) images with plots of hourly surface weather type (above) showed the broad areal coverage of precipitation across Virginia and North Carolina during the nighttime and morning hours on 28 January 2021. Storm total snowfall and peak wind gusts associated with this event are listed... Read More
A tornado struck the Tallahassee, FL, airport at 1643 UTC on 27 January 2021 (SPC Storm Report). The animation above shows ProbSevere (version 2) fields (from this site) in the hour leading up to tornadogenesis. The animation demonstrates how ProbTor values can be used to identify for closer scrutiny a particular radar object: the... Read More
