The incipient circulation of Cyclone Seroja moved very slowly across the island of Timor in Indonesia during the 03 April – 04 April 2021 period — and the MIMIC Total Precipitable Water product (above) depicted very high values over that area (just northwest of Australia).At Kupang’s El Tari Airport, precipitation amounts included 547... Read More

Every Spring season, many states conduct prescribed burns as a part of land management within forests, parks, wetlands etc — and GOES-16 (GOES-East) True Color RGB images created using Geo2Grid (above) showed a large number of smoke plumes associated with prescribed burning across parts of the central US on 02 April 2021.Of... Read More

GOES-16 (GOES-East) Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) images (above) showed the thermal anomaly (cluster of darker red pixels) associated with a fire at a metal recycling plant in La Crosse, Wisconsin — located at the center of the images — on 02 April 2021. According to media reports, over 100 vehicles were burning at... Read More

VIIRS data from the ascending NOAA-20 overpass on 2 April 2021 — with data downloaded at the Direct Broadcast site at UW-Madison — showed predominantly clear skies over the Great Lakes.  Lake ice is confined to bays on the north shore of Lake Superior, and a hint of green appears... Read More