Severe thunderstorms traveled across the Southeast United States on Friday 2023-03-24. In Mississippi, at least 25 people were killed by tornado outbreak. Notable damage was experienced in Rolling Fork and Silver City, MS. The governor issued a state of emergency on Saturday, the following day.NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (above) include plots of time-matched (+/- 3 minutes) SPC Storm Reports during an outbreak of deadly tornadoes across parts of Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee late in the day on 24 March 2023. The coldest thunderstorm tops exhibited infrared brightness temperatures around -70ºC (darker black enhancement).A... Read More
JMA Himawari-9 Dust RGB images created using Geo2Grid (above) spanned the period from 2100 UTC on 20 March to 2350 UTC on 22 March 2023 — and showed a large area of dense blowing dust (brighter shades of magenta to pink) across parts of eastern Mongolia and northern/northeastern China (eventually crossing... Read More
This blog post reported on the addition of data from the AOML Direct Broadcast site in Miami to data from the SSEC/CIMSS Direct Broadcast ftp site. Now, data from the Direct Broadcast site in San Juan, Puerto Rico, have also been added, allowing imagery to extend all the way into central Brazil! These... Read More
