Turbulence early on 24 December on a flight (Airbus A-300) from Barbados to Manchester (Scotland) led to a diversion (to Bermuda) and hospitalization (albeit with non-life-threatening injuries) of about a dozen passengers. The graphic below shows the path of the flight with data taken from FlightAware.com. The green parts of... Read More
GOES-16 (GOES-East) Nighttime Microphysics RGB and Day Snow-Fog RGB images (above) displayed the nocturnal formation — followed by the daytime dissipation — of shallow fog/stratus across snow-covered (shades of red in Day Snow-Fog RGB imagery) parts of southeastern Saskatchewan, southwestern Manitoba and northern North Dakota on 22 December 2023. With surface air temperatures dropping into the... Read More
Suomi NPP Day Night Band imagery from the NASA Worldview site, had a large increase in luminance over southwest Iceland on 19 December, to the southwest of the Capitol of Reykjavik. That is shown below in the toggle of 18 December and 19 December 2023 imagery. (Click here for a map of... Read More
The National Weather Service forecast office in Wilmington OH (Twitter link) has noted via tweets during the day on 18 December 2023 (link, link, link) that road visibility conditions are variable in the extreme as snow showers move through Indiana and Ohio. The Day Cloud Phase distinction imagery below at 1701, 1801... Read More
