10-minute Full Disk scan GOES-18 (GOES-West) Mid-level Water Vapor images (above) showed the remnants of Typhoon Halong (North Pacific surface analyses) as it entered the Bering Sea late in the day on 11 October, re-intensified to a Hurricane Force low pressure (Alaska surface analyses) and eventually moved inland across far western and northwestern Alaska later in... Read More

2.5-minute Target Sector JMA Himawari-9 Infrared images (above) showed Ragasa as it intensified from a Category 4 Typhoon at 0000 UTC on 21 September 2025 to a Category 5 (140-knot) Super Typhoon at 0600 UTC and then further to a 145-knot Super Typhoon by 1200 UTC (SATCON). There was a... Read More

The Great Lakes have a significant amount of thermal mass, meaning it takes a long time for them to cool down as the seasons change from summer to autumn. Often during this time of year, the air overlying the lakes is warmer than the lakes themselves. As water evaporates from... Read More

As discussed on the CIMSS Satellite Blog on July 23rd, active tropical weather continues in the western Pacific Ocean. Specifically, the storm previously known as Invest 98W has organized into Tropical Storm Krosa, now located northwest of Guam and directly west of the Northern Mariana Islands, broadly moving north. Low-Earth Orbiting (LEO) satellite observations... Read More