GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images which include plots of GOES-16 Derived Motion Winds within the Suface-900 hPa layer (above) showed the eastward transport of several ice floes from the northern portion of Green Bay into Lake Michigan on 30 January 2023. Surface wind gusts and Derived Motion Wind speeds were generally in the... Read More

An animation of the Day Cloud Type RGB over Lake Superior on 30 January 2023, above, shows two prominent features: persistent lake-effect bands oriented west-northwest to east-southeast over the western four-fifths of the Lake (station KCMX on the Keewenaw peninsula, for example, observed heavy snow during this animation), and a more north-south oriented convergence band that extends from the eastern Upper Peninsula of... Read More

Auckland, on the North Island of New Zealand, has experienced significant flooding starting on 27 January 2023. MIMIC Total Precipitable Water fields, above, (from this site, or downloadable here) show an atmospheric connection between the deep tropical moisture that is persistent between 5oS and 20oS; a filament moves with a cyclonic swirl from 26-28 January. A second region of... Read More