Stories by Scott Lindstrom
Severe Weather over Lower Michigan
Storm Reports for the first two weeks of November 2023 show that the all but one of the reports have occurred over lower Michigan, where large hail (1 to 1.5 inches in diameter) occurred shortly after sunrise on 6 November in Newaygo County (1423 UTC), Montcalm County (1440, 1443 UTC) and... Read More
Cat 5 Hurricane Otis from the Wisconsin Direct Broadcast site
Hurricane Otis explosively developed yesterday and made landfall near midnight on 25 October. The image below shows Day Night Band visible imagery from NOAA-20 at 0752 UTC, shortly after the storm made landfall near Acapulco, Mexico as a Category 5 storm. A clear eye is not apparent, and no lightning... Read More
Severe Tropical Cyclone Lola in the southwest Pacific
MIMIC Total Precipitable Water fields, above, show the development of Tropical Cyclone Lola near 170oE Longitude. The storm pushed south out of the western Pacific Intertropical Convergence Zone. By 0000 UTC on the 23rd, it began to entrain dry air into its circulation as it approached Vanuatu. In addition to... Read More