Upper Midwest Severe Thunderstorm Outbreak
An outbreak of severe thunderstorms developed across the Upper Midwest states on 07 June 2007 — SPC storm reports showed widespread tornadoes (including the EF-3 Langlade WI... Read More
An outbreak of severe thunderstorms developed across the Upper Midwest states on 07 June 2007 — SPC storm reports showed widespread tornadoes (including the EF-3 Langlade WI... Read More
No…just a weak cyclonic vortex off the Atlantic coast of Florida that just happens to look like a tropical cyclone with an eye! GOES-12 visible imagery (above; Java animation) shows the cloud swirl as it developed what appeared to be an “eye” on... Read More
AWIPS MODIS water vapor channel imagery (above) shows a well-defined (but cloud-free) variant of a “Foehn gap” over central Colorado on 04 January 2007. This Foehn gap was oriented roughly north-south, just to the lee of the highest terrain of the Front Range of the Rocky... Read More
Another example of detection of surface features on “water vapor channel” imagery was apparent on 18 December 2006. In this particular case, the “surface” was the high terrain of the Absaroka Range, Wind River Range, and Big Horn Mountains in Wyoming (all... Read More