NUCAPS Sounding Availability, 1713 UTC on 9 February with a location near New York City highlighted (click to enlarge) After an outage of about a week brought on by an anomaly in NOAA-20 (since fixed), NUCAPS profiles have re-appeared in

The US Drought Monitor for islands in the western Pacific Ocean, below, shows moderate to severe drought in some of the islands, especially those farthest from the Equator. Is there anything on the horizon that might bring rains? Drought Monitor

GOES-16 Band 13 infrared (10.3 µm) imagery and clear-sky derived Lifted Index (scaled from -5 to 10), 1751-2246 UTC on 8 February 2024 (Click to enlarge) The Storm Prediction Center placed portions of the upper Midwest United States in a

GOES-16 Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) images, from 0550 -1610 UTC on 08 February [click to play animated GIF | MP4] A distinct hot thermal signature (black to yellow to red pixels) of a new Sundhnúkagígar fissure eruption on the Reykjanes

1-minute GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm, top) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm, bottom) images, from 1600-2200 UTC on 06 February [click to play animated GIF | MP4] 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean”

MIMIC Total Precipitable Water fields, 1900 UTC 5 February – 1800 UTC 6 February 2024 (Click to enlarge) As tropical storm Nat moves away from the Samoan Islands and towards Tahiti, another Invest area, 98P, has developed north of the