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Tropical Storm Isaac by Night

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This natural-color image of smoke and fires in several states within Brazil including Amazonas, Mato Grosso, and Rondônia was collected by NOAA/NASA's Suomi NPP using the VIIRS (Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite) instrument on August 20, 2019.  Although it is not unusual to see fires in Brazil at this time of year due to high temperatures and low humidity it seems this year the number of fires may be record setting.  According to Brazil’s space research center INPE almost 73,000 fires have been recorded so far this year. INPE is seeing an 83% increase over the same period in 2018. NASA's Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Worldview application provides the capability to interactively browse over 700 global, full-resolution satellite imagery layers and then download the underlying data. Many of the available imagery layers are updated within three hours of observation, essentially showing the entire Earth as it looks "right now.” Suomi NPP is managed by NASA and NOAA. Image Courtesy: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS).  Caption: Lynn Jenner Source: https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2019/wildfires-in-the-brazilian-rainforest-creating-cross-country-smoke @noaa @noaaclimate @nasa #climate #fires #suominpp #amazon #smoke #rainforest https://www.instagram.com/p/B1cnwDfFGTd/?igshid=19mjid7p694ia

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Olha quem tá aí, a Antártica!!! E em.adianta falar que a foto é da NASA, pois a foto é do NOAA usando dois satélites o NOAA20 e o SuomiNPP. Nenhuma borda detectada!!!! https://www.instagram.com/p/B7r-BbZJA_A/?igshid=1kgdfq2d8ezi1

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Joe’s Weather World: Easing through summer (WED-7/24)

Happy Wednesday…with another very comfortable start in the KC area this morning. Unlike yesterday when we briefly touched 57° to tie a previous record low…today we missed it by a couple of degrees. The record stands at 57° set back in 2004. The forecast is overall a dry one through the weekend…but there are small chances of some rain drops out there later tomorrow or tomorrow night. The pattern for now is that we’re in NW flow and that means we need to watch for little disturbances coming down in that flow from the NW>SE. Sometimes they aren’t modeled well…and sometimes they can create little showers or sprinkles.

Forecast:

Today: Some morning clouds but otherwise mostly sunny and mild with highs 80-85°

Tonight: Fair skies and pleasant with lows 60-65°

Thursday: Partly sunny with an outside chance that some light showers or sprinkles pop up somewhere out there. Highs near 85°

Friday: Mostly sunny and warmer with highs close to 85°

Discussion:

These last few days have been marvelous and today overall will be about the same. The main relief…temperatures and especially dew points are most welcome for this time year especially.

Dew points above 65° are typical…and above 70° aren’t that unusual…above 75° catches your attention.

Dew points in the 50s in late July is pretty unusual. Here is the 7AM surface map…

Dew points in most areas are in the upper 50s to near 60°

High pressure has moved into the Plains…

Compared to average though at 8AM…we’re still sitting pretty.

Air around a surface high circulates in a clockwise manner and blows away from higher pressure. Things are moving slowly so that this air mass is sort of just recirculating across the region right now. So the air isn’t getting too modified too quickly.

That means we’re just recirculating the same nice air…and when we broaden out the view to see the dew points across a wider area…

Again remember IF you have dew points in the 60-65° range…that is really pretty OK for late July..even the folks down in Dixie are enjoying this nice air as well compared to what things are typically like!

Where are the dew points higher? How about in the deserts of AZ.

This is some monsoonal moisture that has worked it’s way into south central AZ.

There have been some storms out there, especially in the more mountainous terrain. I’ve spent some time time talking about the fire burning north of Flagstaff in northern AZ. Yesterday I showed a fascinating timelapse of what happens when a fire is hit by a heavy thunderstorm and how it reacted to the rain that fell.

#MuseumFire Evening Update July 23, 2019 pic.twitter.com/mry80Le5Z1

— Arizona News (@ArizonaNewsnet) July 24, 2019

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Just for the heck of it, here's the #MuseumFire near #Flagstaff via Sentinel-2 satellite, taken 7/22/2019 18:24 UTC (False color/Urban image). Footprint of the fire is outdated. pic.twitter.com/AmGnrFPrfA

— AI6YR (@ai6yrham) July 24, 2019

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The thunderstorm brought so much rain so quickly that there was flash flooding in the area. What the concern is is that the fire has burning through vegetation and has left a “burn scar” on the land. When the rain falls you have tremendous runoff, there’s nothing that gets absorbed so you get flooding. So while the fire was burning you also have flash flood warnings and sand bagging operations happening to try to avoid the flooding issues. Crazy.

This was amazing to watch #azwx #azfamily pic.twitter.com/OVloDCsgPA

— Royal Norman (@royalnorman) July 24, 2019

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I would imagine though it was mostly welcome up there.

So far the overall fire season in the western US seems like it’s not starting off too crazy. There was a lot of moisture out there this winter…and now that things have dried out there are concerns about what happens down the road with human/lightning caused fires in the western third of the US.

While is seems things are going OK out in the western US (for now)…look what’s happening in AK.

#SuomiNPP continues to keep an eye on one of the worst wildfire seasons in Alaska. Over 2 million acres have burned so far. The 2 largest fires, Hess Creek and Chalkyitsik, can be seen in the far left and far right of this S-NPP image. More here: https://t.co/6g4zcZokfs pic.twitter.com/V3nr8axegI

— Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) (@JPSSProgram) July 24, 2019

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AK has been crazy warm (for them) all year long.

On the other side of the country 2 tornadoes hit the Cape Cod area yesterday including this dramatic video of a motel losing it’s roof from the strong winds. Wow!

Wow – incredible video of today's tornado from West Yarmouth. #nbcct pic.twitter.com/zJElc9At2h

— Ryan Hanrahan (@ryanhanrahan) July 23, 2019

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and on the other side of the Atlantic intense and potentially deadly heat continues in Europe. More all time record highs were set there yesterday and more may happen over the next few hours today. The temperature anomalies (up at about 5,000 feet) are pretty impressive in that part of the world. Remember most don’t have air conditioning there.

#France set new temperature records on Tuesday as temperatures topped 40°C. Many more heat records are expected in the next 2 days in countries including France, Germany, Belgium, NL, and possibly UK, during Europe's 2nd intense #heatwave of the year.#ClimateChange pic.twitter.com/PoAM3h4Ku3

— WMO | OMM (@WMO) July 24, 2019

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Second blast of intense heat on the way tomorrow across parts of Europe. Here's the current records v forecasted highs:

Netherlands: 38.6 / 40C

Belgium: 38.6 / 40C

Luxembourg: 37.9 / 40C

Germany: 40.3 / 40C

France: 46 / 40C#ClimateChange pic.twitter.com/zIGS8AIATt

— Steffan Griffiths (@SteffGriff) July 24, 2019

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This is their 2nd major heat wave this summer. Some relief comes over the next few days (especially over the weekend) for a pretty decent swath of western Europe at least.

Well I think I’ve covered a lot of bases and a lot of terrain! I want to give you a heads up that I’ll be taking my annual golf vacation/trip to Arizona starting Saturday. So odds are there won’t be blogs for about 10 days or so. I’ll get another one or two done this week before I leave though.

Our feature photo comes from Lesa Wardrip‎

Joe

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Just in time for severe weather: Radio occultation data feeds NOAA weather models

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Just in time for severe weather: Radio occultation data feeds NOAA weather models

NOAA forecasters predicting an active 2020 hurricane season are refining storm track and intensity forecasts thanks to data from multiple satellites, including the second Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere and Climate (COSMIC-2).

Six COSMIC-2 satellites launched in June 2019 aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket are gathering more than 4,000 daily radio occultation soundings.

The soundings reveal moisture content at various altitudes “and moisture is one of the important ingredients for driving hurricanes,” said Jim Yoe, chief administrative officer for NOAA’s Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation, a multiagency research organization housed in the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. Forecasters also rely on the atmospheric moisture data to determine a hurricane’s potential to produce heavy rainfall, he added.

For the hurricane season, which officially began June 1, NOAA upgraded its Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting computer model. The new model ingests data from Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites-16 and -17 in addition to pulling in data from NOAA-20, the NOAA-NASA SuomiNPP satellite, Japan’s Himawari-8 satellite, European Metop spacecraft and COSMIC-2.

With all the new data, “we expect to have improvements on the order of five percent for the track and perhaps as much as eight percent for the intensity of hurricanes in the North Atlantic and the Pacific basins,” Yoe said. “Because we’ve always done better at forecasting the tracks of hurricanes, there’s more room to improve our intensity forecasting.”

The upgrade comes at a critical time. Forecasters are acutely aware that the hurricane season is beginning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Moving people out of a hurricane’s path could be complicated by their desire to minimize unnecessary physical contact with anyone who could expose them to COVID-19.

“We always feel a huge responsibility to make the best forecast that we can in hurricane season,” Yoe said. “That’s especially true this year.”

NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland, forecast six to 10 hurricanes with winds of at least 74 miles per hour during the 2020 season, which runs from June 1 through Nov. 30. Three to six of the storms are likely to produce winds of at least 111 miles per hour, making them major hurricanes, according to a May 21 NOAA news release. Hurricane seasons produce an average of six hurricanes, including three major hurricanes.

NOAA officials began feeding data from COSMIC-2 into forecast models in late May. Unlike the original COSMIC program, which included six satellites launched in 2006 into orbits widely dispersed around the globe, COSMIC-2 satellites are concentrated around the equator. The United States and Taiwan, which back the COSMIC programs through a joint venture, canceled plans in 2017 to build and launch another six polar-orbiting COSMIC-2 satellites, citing budget constraints.

To make up for that loss, NOAA is considering obtaining radio occultation data for polar regions from international and commercial satellite operators to feed future forecast models.

GeoOptics, PlanetIQ and Spire Global already supply radio occultation data to NOAA through the Commercial Weather Data Pilot. However, the radio occultation soundings the agency receives through the pilot program are not fed into operational weather models. Instead, NOAA conducts a retrospective analysis to determine whether the data would have improved forecasts if the agency had immediate access.

That type of retrospective analysis also underscores the contribution of radio occultation soundings to hurricane forecasts.

“Numerical studies have shown that we are nowhere near the saturation point for radio occultation data,” Yoe said. “We can add a lot more and still get measurable improvement to our forecast.”

At the American Meteorological Society conference in Boston in January, Steve Volz, NOAA assistant administrator for satellite and information services, said the agency has a target of acquiring 20,000 soundings per day.

“I would agree that we definitely want to continue increasing the number of radio occultation soundings that we have available to us,” Yoe said. “Having a compliment in high latitudes that’s comparable to what we have at low latitudes from COSMIC-2 is definitely desirable.”

If the soundings are destined for operational weather models, though, they need to be delivered very quickly. Setting up that speedy data delivery mechanism for new partners can be costly, Yoe said.

UCAR, the entity responsible for processing and disseminating COSMIC-2 data, is required to deliver COSMIC-2 observations to NOAA forecasters within 45 minutes.

This article originally appeared in the June 15, 2020 issue of SpaceNews magazine.

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RT @NOAASatellites: Looking for #snow? Head to the Sierra Nevada, where some places have picked up more than 30 feet this winter. Here's a look at the Sierra snowpack in 2018 vs. 2019, courtesy of the #NOAA20 and #SuomiNPP satellites. More info: https://t.co/gljFYLpSC8 https://t.co/3B6C1OiS0N

Looking for #snow? Head to the Sierra Nevada, where some places have picked up more than 30 feet this winter. Here's a look at the Sierra snowpack in 2018 vs. 2019, courtesy of the #NOAA20 and #SuomiNPP satellites. More info: https://t.co/gljFYLpSC8 pic.twitter.com/3B6C1OiS0N

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Space photos show fires tormenting bone-dry California

Triple-digit temperatures and parched land have left much of California's expansive forests vulnerable to any spark or flame. The Carr Fire, which started on July 23 after a vehicle caught fire, has spread to nearly 100,000 acres as of July 30. From hundreds of miles above, satellite images show a state besieged by an imposing plume of smoke, with a vast part of the region blanketed in a thick, brown haze.  SEE ALSO: Redding newspaper lost power amid extreme fire, but still found a way to print the news Vegetation in the drought-ridden terrain around the City of Redding, where the Carr Fire has prompted thousands to flee and has taken at least six lives, is now exceptionally dry.  NASA's Aqua satellite captured this image of the California fire's smoke spreading to Utah.Image: NASAIn fact, it's likely approaching either near-record or record dryness levels in Northern California, said Brenda Belongie, lead meteorologist of the U.S. Forest Service's Predictive Services in Northern California, who works and lives in Redding. NOAA's #GOES17 satellite saw smoke from the #wildfires in northern #California late yesterday, note the high white clouds blowing over the brown-colored smoke beneath. This week a dangerous heatwave with triple digit temps is expected to exacerbate the situation. pic.twitter.com/NhroaD3RuB — NOAA Satellites (@NOAASatellites) July 30, 2018 While any fire is the result of a confluence of weather events — notably gusty winds, human carelessness, and lack of rain — California's forests have been subjected to both heat waves and sustained periods of notably hot temperatures, both of which are enhanced by climate change.  Check out this airplane view of the #CarrFire. https://t.co/eXPNS1wnh8 — NWS Sacramento (@NWSSacramento) July 27, 2018 "In California, persistent heat and dryness increased fire danger," wrote the U.S. Drought Monitor on July 24, the day after the Carr fire began.  In particular, the area around Redding is experiencing conditions worse than "abnormally dry," and is now listed as experiencing "moderate drought."  As temperatures heat up this afternoon across #NorCal, we're seeing an increase in fire activity. Here's the latest #GOES16 Fire Temperature product #CarrFire #RiverFire #RanchFire #MendocinoComplex #cawx pic.twitter.com/TaikChKmSo — NWS Sacramento (@NWSSacramento) July 29, 2018 Much of the entire heat-stricken Northern Hemisphere has recently experienced record heat waves or above-average summer temperatures.  Redding could be experiencing its warmest July on record, according to KRCR News meteorologist Rob Elvington. Northern Hemisphere temperature anomalies during summertime (land-only)...[1900-2017 June/July/August 2-m T data from @BerkeleyEarth] pic.twitter.com/rkmLUwJPQS — Zack Labe (@ZLabe) July 29, 2018 Redding's scorching 2018 summer isn't an anomaly. Each of the city's last June-July average temperatures for the last five years have been among the five hottest on record, noted Elvington. These conditions have helped further dry out the land and spawn a fire that leapt over the Sacramento River last week. Those conditions also stoked a towering vortex that propelled the Carr Fire's own violent weather system. "This is a large and dangerous plume dominated fire in which spreading is not driven by the wind, but rather the fire itself," the National Weather Service wrote over the weekend. Smoke plume is now breaking through the nocturnal inversion. Fire activity will likely increasing with more venting. #CarrFire pic.twitter.com/rqr1gSqsBG — Rob Elvington (@RobElvington) July 27, 2018 During the day, satellite images have picked up the fire's towering plume, which exploded to over 20,000 feet in around 40 minutes. Here is another radar rendering of the #CarrFire plume during the destructive vortex. The plume undergoes rapid vertical development, growing from 6 to 12 km (19->39Kft) in 40 min. Thats a lot of stretching and a possible explanation for vortex intensification. #CAwx #CAfire pic.twitter.com/1CTHAvl6Di — Neil Lareau (@nplareau) July 29, 2018 The Carr Fire can also be seen easily from space at night, where it appears as bright as the Golden State's sprawling cities. The #SuomiNPP satellite captured this image of smoke from the #California wildfires this morning - including the large #FergusonFire, which has grown to 43,000 acres and closed parts of #Yosemite National Park. pic.twitter.com/wCfCkUTO4b — NOAA Satellites (@NOAASatellites) July 26, 2018 Man the #CarrFire is scary. New infrared imagery now that GOES-16 is back up. #CAfire pic.twitter.com/Mw4IQ7EVYQ — Rob Elvington (@RobElvington) July 27, 2018 California's dramatic 2018 fire season, which forced a smoke-filled Yosemite National Park to close its iconic valley and brought flames back to the region's wine country, follows the state's harrowing 2017 season — its worst fire season on record. WATCH: Ever wonder how the universe might end?

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Triple-digit temperatures and parched land have left much of California's expansive forests vulnerable to any spark or flame. The Carr Fire, which started on July 23 after a vehicle caught fire, has spread to nearly 100,000 acres as of July 30. From hundreds of miles above, satellite images show a state besieged by an imposing plume of smoke, with a vast part of the region blanketed in a thick, brown haze.  SEE ALSO: Redding newspaper lost power amid extreme fire, but still found a way to print the news Vegetation in the drought-ridden terrain around the City of Redding, where the Carr Fire has prompted thousands to flee and has taken at least six lives, is now exceptionally dry.  NASA's Aqua satellite captured this image of the California fire's smoke spreading to Utah.Image: NASAIn fact, it's likely approaching either near-record or record dryness levels in Northern California, said Brenda Belongie, lead meteorologist of the U.S. Forest Service's Predictive Services in Northern California, who works and lives in Redding. NOAA's #GOES17 satellite saw smoke from the #wildfires in northern #California late yesterday, note the high white clouds blowing over the brown-colored smoke beneath. This week a dangerous heatwave with triple digit temps is expected to exacerbate the situation. pic.twitter.com/NhroaD3RuB — NOAA Satellites (@NOAASatellites) July 30, 2018 While any fire is the result of a confluence of weather events — notably gusty winds, human carelessness, and lack of rain — California's forests have been subjected to both heat waves and sustained periods of notably hot temperatures, both of which are enhanced by climate change.  Check out this airplane view of the #CarrFire. https://t.co/eXPNS1wnh8 — NWS Sacramento (@NWSSacramento) July 27, 2018 "In California, persistent heat and dryness increased fire danger," wrote the U.S. Drought Monitor on July 24, the day after the Carr fire began.  In particular, the area around Redding is experiencing conditions worse than "abnormally dry," and is now listed as experiencing "moderate drought."  As temperatures heat up this afternoon across #NorCal, we're seeing an increase in fire activity. Here's the latest #GOES16 Fire Temperature product #CarrFire #RiverFire #RanchFire #MendocinoComplex #cawx pic.twitter.com/TaikChKmSo — NWS Sacramento (@NWSSacramento) July 29, 2018 Much of the entire heat-stricken Northern Hemisphere has recently experienced record heat waves or above-average summer temperatures.  Redding could be experiencing its warmest July on record, according to KRCR News meteorologist Rob Elvington. Northern Hemisphere temperature anomalies during summertime (land-only)...[1900-2017 June/July/August 2-m T data from @BerkeleyEarth] pic.twitter.com/rkmLUwJPQS — Zack Labe (@ZLabe) July 29, 2018 Redding's scorching 2018 summer isn't an anomaly. Each of the city's last June-July average temperatures for the last five years have been among the five hottest on record, noted Elvington. These conditions have helped further dry out the land and spawn a fire that leapt over the Sacramento River last week. Those conditions also stoked a towering vortex that propelled the Carr Fire's own violent weather system. "This is a large and dangerous plume dominated fire in which spreading is not driven by the wind, but rather the fire itself," the National Weather Service wrote over the weekend. Smoke plume is now breaking through the nocturnal inversion. Fire activity will likely increasing with more venting. #CarrFire pic.twitter.com/rqr1gSqsBG — Rob Elvington (@RobElvington) July 27, 2018 During the day, satellite images have picked up the fire's towering plume, which exploded to over 20,000 feet in around 40 minutes. Here is another radar rendering of the #CarrFire plume during the destructive vortex. The plume undergoes rapid vertical development, growing from 6 to 12 km (19->39Kft) in 40 min. Thats a lot of stretching and a possible explanation for vortex intensification. #CAwx #CAfire pic.twitter.com/1CTHAvl6Di — Neil Lareau (@nplareau) July 29, 2018 The Carr Fire can also be seen easily from space at night, where it appears as bright as the Golden State's sprawling cities. The #SuomiNPP satellite captured this image of smoke from the #California wildfires this morning - including the large #FergusonFire, which has grown to 43,000 acres and closed parts of #Yosemite National Park. pic.twitter.com/wCfCkUTO4b — NOAA Satellites (@NOAASatellites) July 26, 2018 Man the #CarrFire is scary. New infrared imagery now that GOES-16 is back up. #CAfire pic.twitter.com/Mw4IQ7EVYQ — Rob Elvington (@RobElvington) July 27, 2018 California's dramatic 2018 fire season, which forced a smoke-filled Yosemite National Park to close its iconic valley and brought flames back to the region's wine country, follows the state's harrowing 2017 season — its worst fire season on record. WATCH: Ever wonder how the universe might end?

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Cloudy, Late Winter Day in East Asia by sjrankin on Flickr.

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regram @nasa Brazil's World Cup 2014 host cities are seen at night in this satellite image from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite, captured on August 4, 2013. Home to roughly 190 million people, Brazil is the largest country in South America and the fifth largest in the world by area (8.5 million square kilometers). As shown in the image above, Brazil stretches about 4,000 kilometers from north to south and from east to west. The coastal cities of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro (below) are the centerpieces of the most densely populated part of the country. In 2014, twelve cities are hosting World Cup matches,including Brasilia, Belo Horizonte, Manaus, Fortaleza, Cuiaba, Curitiba, Porto Alegre, Natal, Recife, Salvador, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo. The nighttime view was made possible by the VIIRS day-night band which detects light in a range of wavelengths from green to near-infrared, and uses light intensification to enable the detection of dim signals. The instrument can sense light 100,000 times fainter than the conventional visible light sensors, making it very sensitive to things like moonlight and city lights. Unlike a film camera that captures a photograph in one exposure, VIIRS produces an image by repeatedly scanning a scene and resolving it as millions of individual picture elements, or pixels. The day-night band goes a step further, determining on-the-fly whether to use its low, medium, or high-gain mode. If a pixel is very bright, a low-gain mode on the sensor prevents the pixel from over-saturating. If the pixel is dark, the signal will be amplified. Suomi NPP is the result of a partnership between NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Department of Defense. Image Credit: NASA/Suomi NPP/Earth Observatory #nasa #space @noaa #npp #suominpp