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Satellite Liaison Blog
6d ago
After flash flooding hit parts of northern Illinois on 14 July 2024, according to NWS Chicago, the nation’s third largest metropolitan area was targeted again on Monday, July 15, this time by a powerful derecho. NWS Chicago noted that the derecho ‘tracked through northern Illinois and northwest Indiana…producing widespread straight-line wind damage’. In addition, ‘a ..read more
Satellite Liaison Blog
2w ago
Hurricane Beryl was an impressive 2024 tropical system that developed in the central tropical Atlantic and traversed through the Caribbean in late June and early July 2024, becoming the earliest Category 5 Atlantic Hurricane in recorded history. GOES-East (-16) imagery captured the evolution of the storm from it’s formation through its decay. This blog post ..read more
Satellite Liaison Blog
3w ago
Hurricane Beryl became the earliest Category 5 hurricane on record in the Atlantic Basin at 0300 UTC 02 July 2024. GOES-East Full Disk 10-minute GeoColor imagery captured the landfall of Hurricane Beryl on Carriacou Island at 1510 UTC 01 July 2024, when Beryl was a Category 4 hurricane with sustained winds of 150 mph and ..read more
Satellite Liaison Blog
3w ago
Moisture streaming in from the Gulf of Mexico in combination with burn scars lead to to flash flooding across New Mexico on Wednesday, June 19. From NWS Albuquerque in the PM of 06/19: “At 318 PM MDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing heavy rain over the McBride Burn Scar. Between 1 and 2 inches of ..read more
Satellite Liaison Blog
1M ago
Flooding rains struck South Florida last week, amounting to nearly 28 inches of rain near the Everglades, according to the Weather Prediction Center (WPC) during the morning of the 14th. The most impactful day was Wednesday, June 12, when NWS Miami issued a Flash Flood Emergency during the afternoon. The WPC Metwatch team highlighted the ..read more
Satellite Liaison Blog
1M ago
A warm, moist air mass in conjunction with a stationary front sparked severe weather on June 5, 2024, throughout Maryland, leading to 20 tornado reports and over six inches of rain. The 2100 UTC 05 June 2024 Weather Prediction Center (WPC) Surface Analysis showed dew points above 70F near the Mason-Dixon line along a stationary ..read more
Satellite Liaison Blog
1M ago
Severe storms developing across the central and southern US plains on 25 May 2024 resulted in over 150 reports of hail, over 240 reports of severe wind, and over 40 tornados. GOES and JPSS satellite imagery provided useful details into the analysis of storm development and evolution. A N-S oriented dryline had developed from w ..read more
Satellite Liaison Blog
2M ago
Severe thunderstorms developed across central Texas on 22 May 2024 in associated with a surface cold front/trough and dryline further south. The precise location of the dryline across west Texas was captured well in GOES-East Split Window Difference Imagery. Recall, the SWD captures low level moisture gradients well, particularly in the presence of steep lapse ..read more
Satellite Liaison Blog
2M ago
A series of upper-level disturbances has delivered rounds of wintry weather to the high elevations of the central and northern Rockies, despite the calendar heading into late May. From NWS Weather Prediction Center (WPC) in the AM of 5/21: “cool and unsettled weather underneath a broad upper trough is anticipated to remain locked-in over the ..read more
Satellite Liaison Blog
2M ago
A mid-May storm-force low made its way into the Bering Sea on 14 May 2024. The 1800 UTC 13 May 2024 NWS Ocean Prediction Center (OPC) Surface Analysis showed a low pressure system developed in the Sea of Okhotsk, with a minimum central pressure of 1001 mb. By 1200 UTC 14 May 2024, the central ..read more