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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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Potential challenges of interpreting water vapor imagery: A tropical moisture case over San Diego on 21 Sep 2016
While water vapor imagery is no doubt very useful for forecasting, it can at times be tricky to interpret. This blog discusses a particularly challenging case over Southern California on 21 September 2016, when deep tropical moisture produced a rain event … Continue reading
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GOES-14 SRSOR 1-minute visible imagery for 19 May 2015 over Texas
GOES-14 will be in Super Rapid Scan Operations for GOES-R (SRSOR) mode between 18 May – 12 June, 2015. This special mode allows for 1-minute temporal imagery for GOES, similar to what will be available when GOES-R becomes available in … Continue reading
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GOES-14 SRSO for 11 May 2014 Severe Weather Event
GOES-14 was operating on super rapid scan operations schedule for May 11, 2014, meaning that images were being taken every 1 minute. This high temporal resolution data will be routinely available for severe weather events with GOES-R, therefore it is … Continue reading
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Great Lakes Ice Cover
The exceptionally cold winter over the Great Lakes region has led to relatively high ice coverage across the Great Lakes. The GLERL analysis of ice cover percentage across the Great Lakes is 91% as of March 4: To put this … Continue reading
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