GOES-16 (GOES-East) Upper-level Water Vapor (6.2 µm) images that included plots of Derived Motion Winds along with Pilot Reports (PIREPs) of turbulence (above) showed that there was widespread turbulence in the general vicinity of the axis of an anomalously-strong subtropical jet stream moving across the US on 09 February 2024. Wind speeds along the axis... Read More
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?MIMIC Total Precipitable Water fields, below, show mostly dry conditions over the western Pacific with... Read More
As tropical storm Nat moves away from the Samoan Islands and towards Tahiti, another Invest area, 98P, has developed north of the Samoan Islands. The animation above, from the MIMIC Total Precipitable Water site (link), shows a cyclonically-rotating concentration of moisture just north of Samoa, and moving east-southeastward toward Olosega... Read More
GOES-18 (GOES-West) and GOES-16 (GOES-East) True Color RGB images from the CSPP GeoSphere site (above) showed hazy plumes of blowing dust lofted by Tehuano gap winds that emerged from the south coast of Mexico — which spread out across the Gulf of Tehuantepec and the adjacent waters of the Pacific Ocean on 27-30 January 2024 (long, narrow rope... Read More
