NUCAPS Sounding Availability, 0050 UTC on 19 March 2024 and gridded NUCAPS fields of 500-mb Temperature at 0138 UTC on 19 March 2024 (Click to enlarge) The incorporation of MetopC NUCAPS files into AWIPS also means that MetopC Gridded NUCAPS

Himawari-9 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm, top), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm, middle) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.4 µm, bottom) images [click to play animation | MP4] 10-minute JMA Himawari-9 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window

It’s spring time on the Great Plains, which means strong dynamical systems that often bring blizzards as well as severe thunderstorms. A long-wave trough with an embedded 850-500mb jet streak created cyclogenesis in western Oklahoma and southwest Kansas on March

1-minute GOES-16 images of ABI spectral bands 01-16 and a Rocket Plume RGB, from 1324-1329 UTC on 14 March; KBRO denotes the Brownsville TX rawinsonde site [click to play animated GIF | MP4] 1-minute Mesoscale Domain  Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) images

GOES-16 Clean Window Infrared (Band 13, 10.3) imagery, 2326 – 0331 UTC 13-14 March 2024 (Click to enlarge); surface observations and storm reports are also plotted. Severe weather occurred over Kansas late in the day 13 March. SPC Storm Reports,

GOES-16 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images with plots of GLM Group Points, from 2200 UTC on 12 March to 0100 UTC on 13 March [click to play animated GIF | MP4] 10-minute Full Disk scan GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Clean” Infrared