Microwave-derived estimates of Total Precipitable Water (TPW), above, from MIMIC TPW, show an increase in moisture around the Samoan Islands to the west of 170o W. Percent of Normal mappings of blended TPW in this region, as shown below (taken from this site), show values at >150% of normal.In anticipation of heavy... Read More
US Space Force EWS-G1 (formerly GOES-13) Infrared Window (10.7 µm) images (above) showed Cyclone Batsirai in the South Indian Ocean as it rapidly intensified from a Tropical Storm at 06 UTC to Category 2 storm (at 12 UTC on 27 January) and briefly exhibited a pinhole eye — and then... Read More
GOES-16 (GOES-East) True Color RGB images created using Geo2Grid (above) displayed the areal extent of snow cover across parts of North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware — resulting from a 21-22 January winter storm (NWS Newport/Morehead City NC | NWS Wakefield VA) — that still remained on 24 January 2022.A Suomi-NPP VIIRS True Color RGB image along with the... Read More
In addition to its use in detecting wind fields over water (link 1, link 2), SAR data can also be used to detect ice. An example is shown above: similar domains on 20 and 24 January 2022 (from this website; this image on 20 January 2022 and this on one 24 January 2022) are toggled. There is a general increase in Lake Michigan shore... Read More
