If you like to watch satellite loops of interesting weather, you will enjoy the submissions for the CIMSS (Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies) for their 40th anniversary celebration. You can see them all at http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes_40th/contest/results.html.
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Forty years ago today, on October 16, 1975, NOAA’s first Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Known as GOES-A when it launched, the satellite was designated GOES-1 once operational. GOES stands for Geostationary Orbiting Earth Satellite. GOES-1 returned its first image only nine…
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Fall color is on the way! I saw an incredible MODIS satellite picture of fall color in the upper peninsula of Michigan and northern Wisconsin yesterday and wanted to share it with you. The photo is below but to really get the best high resolution look at it, click here….
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NASA released a photo from the Terra satellite showing the evidence of the South Carolina flooding as seen from space. Here it is, as annotated by the NWS Wilmington NC office.
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The streamflow image from http://earth.nullschool.net this morning shows the complicated pattern that is affecting the weather in the Southeast today. The first image shows the surface wind across the Southeast, which includes the spin of Hurricane Joaquin, plus the weaker spin of Investigation 90 to the east, which has an 80 percent…
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The 11 pm forecast track for Hurricane Joaquin shows the tendency toward moving the track east is continuing, with the latest track now holding the center of the storm well off the East Coast as it travels north. This will result in less hurricane-based impacts from the storm in the Southeast. …
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The Facebook feed for “This Day in Weather History” reminded me that in 1999, Hurricane Floyd was approaching the Southeast with winds of 145 mph. It did not hit the coast but veered north, paralleling the coast and causing massive evacuations and traffic problems. Some of the current policies in…
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