Severe weather on 15 April and 19 April affords another opportunity to compare Significant Tornado Parameter predictions from a 4-km WRF simulation that includes information from Polar Hyperspectral Soundings and a 3-km HRRR simulation that does not. Consider the example, above, at 2200 and 2300 UTC on 15 April and 0000 and... Read More
Oklahoma City and surrounding areas were struck with severe weather last night, the night of Wednesday 2023-04-19. Nine tornadoes touched down in Oklahoma, making a total of 15 tornadoes from the storm system. Tornadoes were also reported in Nebraska and Iowa. This severe weather took the lives of three Oklahomans.... Read More
Geo2grid includes a series of shell scripts that manipulate various satellite inputs to create (beautiful!) full-resolution high-qulality imagery. Geo2grid version 1.1 was released in late 2022 and this blog post shows how to create a new RGB definition and display the data. The Tropical Version of the Airmass RGB is useful because if has better contrast (than in... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) images from all 16 of the ABI spectral bands (above) displayed signatures of a SpaceX Starship rocket launched from the Starbase facility in Boca Chica Beach, Texas at 1333 UTC on 20 April 2023. The rocket booster condensation cloud was evident in images from all 16... Read More
