GOES-16 (GOES-East) Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm), Fire Temperature RGB. Fire Temperature and Fire Power products (above) displayed signatures of the large Bertha Swamp Road Fire and a smaller Adkins Avenue Fire near Panama City in the Florida Panhandle on 06 March 2022. With the Bertha Swamp Road Fire, 3.9 µm Shortwave Infrared brightness temperatures reached 138.71ºC —... Read More
The animation above shows a progression of mid-tropospheric lapse rates between late on 4 March and late on 6 March 2022. The purple circles enclose regions of steep mid-level lapse rates; dotted purple circles show the location of the steep mid-level lapse rates in the previous image. This slow animation... Read More
SPC (The Storm Prediction Center) issued a Convective Outlooks on 5 March 2022 (1630 UTC; 2000 UTC) showing an Enhanced Risk of Severe Weather over portions of southern Iowa. Preliminary Storm Reports for the day (link) showed tornadoes south of a line from southwestern Iowa to near Des Moines, starting near 2100 UTC. The... Read More
Fancy a swim in Lake Michigan today? Mostly clear skies early in the morning of 4 March allowed for a near-complete NOAA-20 VIIRS estimate of Lake Surface Temperatures, as shown above. The warmest surface waters were near 39oF. AWIPS-ready tiles of ACSPO fields are available from CIMSS. The image below... Read More
