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Archive: Dec 2025

Downslope high wind event across the Colorado Foothills, and a wind-driven grass fire in eastern Colorado prompting evacuations

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Water Vapor images (above) displayed an intermittent signature of subsidence-induced warming/drying (brighter shades of yellow to orange) that led to the development of strong downslope winds in the Front Range of Colorado on 17 December 2025. Several sites recorded peak wind gusts in excess of 100 mph.A toggle... Read More

Potential Distrails Over Northern Lake Michigan

A somewhat unusual feature was visible off of the coast of Wisconsin’s Door Peninsula on 15 December 2025. Bands of clouds were separated by narrow, tight corridors of clear air. Such straight lines are not common for natural features in the atmosphere, which hints that they may be anthropogenic in... Read More