Katchy Phrases: Satellite Radar

Pretty quiet across the lower 48 

Not much popping up on the satellite radar

The first impacts...

The first signs of this..

Hard pressed to find a cloud in sight

Example (Credit- Meteorologist Jeff Beamish; Oct. 22, 2013): "You are hard pressed to find a cloud anywhere across the western U.S. From Oregon all the way down into Arizona; clear skies; any clouds of significance being steered off into western Canada. Transition: That's all thanks to (FuturePattern)..."

Example (Credit-Meteorologist Jeff Beamish: Nov. 4, 2013): "You can see that cloud cover on the satellite loop radar. It's all ahead of a cold front. The first impact of this will be the gusty winds this afternoon."

Example (Credit: Meteorologist Jeff Beamish: Nov. 5, 2013): "The same storm system that ripped up the winds yesterday run a little bit of rain to the Tucson metro beginning to depart off to the east. And it is going to be creating some big travel troubles in the nation's midsection. Here is that trough just off to our north. We are seeing rain and snow developing up ahead of it in the front range of the rockies and portions of south Dakota...

...This is a live look just outside of Rapid City. Looks like an inch or two off the ground. Temperatures in the 20's. This storm system will push into Minnesota and Wisconsin later on this evening. In fact we are talking a good swath of about 2-4 inches of snow for your friends and family in the twin cities of the metro area. A little bit early to talk about snow in the twin cities but again not unheard of for early November."

Example (Jeff Beamish: Nov. 7, 2013): High pressure off to the north. That is going to lock in clear skies this afternoon. Notice the cloud covering California and Nevada heading in over the overnight hours. I think by Saturday we will have partly cloudy skies and filtered sunshine here in Tucson.

Credit John Patrick: Nov. 17, 2013): So those skies slowly clearing out, slowly drying off and it looks like those winds dying down which offers for some good radioational cooling. That's when that heat up that we build up throughout the day can escape back up to the atmosphere and that's how we are able to get as cool as possible for us. We actually have this big upper level low that has been spinning over the west coast for the past couple of days. We are just getting the southern end of it and that's why we are just calling it cool tonight and not cold. That cold air is staying it looks like up from Colorado up to Canada you see some snowflakes falling there throughout the Rockies.

*If there is nothing going on here in Arizona, point out a location on the satellite that shows something going on: