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Different ways to see snow with GOES-16 imagery & RGBs – by Ed Szoke & Dan Bikos
This has not been a particularly snowy winter in New England and the Northeast, with a number of rain events during the season. So naturally, now that “winter” is officially over a snowstorm hit much of the area on Monday 23 March. Here are the snow totals as of Tuesday morning (24 March): In this […]
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Can GLM Total Lightning help with warning for non-supercell (landspout) tornadoes? A case from Iowa on 29 May 2019.
by Ed Szoke and Dan Bikos Total lightning (in-cloud and cloud-to-ground lightning) is available to forecasters from the Global Lightning Mapper (GLM) onboard GOES-16 and GOES-17. Unlike cloud-to-ground lightning, the amount of in-cloud lightning is related to updraft strength, and various studies have seeked to relate in-cloud lightning to the potential for severe storms including […]
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Blowing Dust associated with 10-11 April 2019 Central US Strong Cyclone
By Ed Szoke and Dan Bikos A rapidly intensifying cyclone developed in southeast Colorado late on April 10 as a strong upper-level wave moved out of the Rockies, not quite the “bomb cyclone” of 13 March 2019 but a very intense storm that brought blizzard conditions and widespread snow from the Central Plains to the […]
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Rapid ice cover development over the eastern Great Lakes in late January 2019
An Arctic outbreak occurred in late January 2019 over the Great Lakes which caused not only lake-effect snowfall but a rapid increase in ice coverage across the lakes, particularly over shallower lakes. First, we’ll look at GOES-16 imagery prior to the Arctic outbreak. GOES-16 GeoColor imagery on January 25 (click to open a larger window): […]
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Daytime fog over snow in Wyoming on 21 November 2018
By Ed Szoke and Dan Bikos On 21 November 2018, here is the GOES-16 visible (0.64 micron) imagery: Visible loop: click here or on the image for the animation Do you see any fog in this imagery? How about in this product, do you see any fog? click here or on the image for the […]
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Dry…but not THAT dry!
The GOES-16 water vapor imagery for all 3 channels showed a narrow band of very warm brightness temperatures (implying sinking air and a dry atmosphere) on Friday morning (1502 UTC) 9 Feb 2018. This narrow zone of sinking air is on the southern (anticyclonic) side of a very strong upper level jet draped across the […]
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Lots of smoke moving south – a comparison of GeoColor with other bands for smoke visualization on 1 Aug 2017
The GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational data and are undergoing testing. Users bear all responsibility for inspecting the data prior to use and for the manner in which the data are utilized. Fires have been burning for some time in Montana as well as western Canada, as seen in the latest […]
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Dust event in the El Paso vicinity on 4 April 2017
The GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational data and are undergoing testing. Users bear all responsibility for inspecting the data prior to use and for the manner in which the data are utilized. During the afternoon of 4 April 2017, strong westerly winds and low relative humidity was observed in west Texas, […]
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22 March 2017 GOES-16 imagery in the northeast US into southeast Canada
The GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational data and are undergoing testing. Users bear all responsibility for inspecting the data prior to use and for the manner in which the data are utilized. By Ed Szoke and Dan Bikos On 22 March 2017 the GOES-16 visible band at 0.64 micron over Maine […]
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A look at water vapor imagery from GOES-16
The GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational data and are undergoing testing. Users bear all responsibility for inspecting the data prior to use and for the manner in which the data are utilized. By Ed Szoke and Dan Bikos Among the 16 channels on GOES-16 are 3 water vapor channels at 2 […]
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I’ve been looking at DNB (and brightness temperature difference) over the PAC NW the past couple days: https://fusedfog.ssec.wisc.edu/?p=886 Great time…
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Excellent analysis of this event. As a supplement, we have GOES-15 and Himawari-8 water vapor imagery of the storm posted…