Vermont was hit with its worst flooding in over a century, making it one of the worst natural disasters in the state’s history. Rains dumped up to nine inches from Monday, July 9 and into Tuesday, July 10, 2023. Major roads and highways were shut down, and more than 200 rescues... Read More

GOES-16 (GOES-East) Day Land Cloud Fire RGB, Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm), “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) with an overlay of the Fire Temperature derived product and Visible images with an overlay of the Fire Power derived product — both derived products being components of the GOES Fire Detection and Characterization Algorithm FDCA — (above) showed thermal signatures associated... Read More

GOES-16 Visible (Band 2, 0.64 µm) and Infrared (Band 13, 10.3 µm) imagery at 2316 UTC on 9 July 2023, above, show cloud-top features commonly associated with intense convection off the east coast of Florida, to the southeast of Cape Canaveral. RADARSAT-2 overflew this region at the same time, and... Read More

Widespread clouds can easily hide the location of active precipitation. When that happens, well-timed microwave information can show where precipitation is most likely. In the slider example above, Aqua MODIS infrared imagery with a grey-scaled enhancement (collected over Guam just before 0350 UTC on 9 July) shows regions of convection west and south of Guam (circled in yellow). Where are the heaviest rains located, and... Read More