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Archive: Mar 2025

We get letters, MODIS True Color Edition

Sometimes, CIMSS Blog writers get emailed letter, like the one below (anonymized) forwarded along to CIMSS with a requestA long-dormant idea has resurrected itself in my mind, which is to look into the “biomass and carbon impact” (e.g. biomass and carbon knocked down) from some MCS and derecho type events.... Read More

One long Lake Effect Snow band in February

Very cold air over the Great Lakes on 17 February helped lead to the development of one long Lake-Effect Snow (LES) band that stretched from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan east-southeastward to Lake Huron then over the Bruce Peninsula and into eastern Lake Ontario and on to the Tug Hill... Read More