December 2023 through February 2024 was a period of exceptional wetness over the Samoan Islands. Pago Pago received 68″ of rain during that period (this was the 4th greatest total since the 1950s!!). In the past week, however, the moisture of the South Pacific Convergence Zone has shifted away from... Read More

The Smokehouse Creek fire (inciweb link) as of 29 February is the largest fire in Texas history. VIIRS True-Color imagery above shows an extensive smoke plume (and a lot of other clouds!) over the eastern part of the north Texas Panhandle between 1830 and 2015 UTC on 27 February. Surface observations... Read More