The wide-ranging high-impact storm that brought snowfall in a long band from the Southern Plains to the eastern Great Lakes and New England, as shown here (analysis from this website), and severe weather to Mississippi and Alabama, produced significant icing over the mid-south. With the icing came power outages, as shown in this screenshot (from 1410 UTC on 4 February 2022)... 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 — just north of the island nations of Mauritius and Réunion — during the time period it was classified as a Category 4 intensity storm (00 UTC on 02 February... Read More
GOES-16 True-Color imagery from CSPP Geosphere (direct link to animation), above, shows high clouds over Lake Erie moving eastward as lake ice moves to the north. It is an unusual day that allows a (relatively) unobstructed view of the lake surface. Clouds are often present. Note that southern Lake Huron also seems ice-covered; western... Read More
MIMIC Total Precipitable Water esimates over the Indian Ocean for the 24 hours ending at 2000 UTC on 1 February 2022, above, show the strong cyclonic circulation associated with Cyclone Basirai. Its forecast motion is westward towards Madagascar, as shown in the toggle below that also includes sea-surface temperatures and... Read More
