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Archive: Oct 2014

An extratropical storm containing the remnants of Ana makes landfall in North America

A strong storm that contains the remnants of former central Pacific Hurricane Ana began to make landfall along the West Coast of North America on 27 October 2014 (12 UTC surface analysis). The 17-day animation of GOES-15 6.5 µm Water Vapor channel imagery, above, shows Ana emerging out of the Intertropical Convergence Zone, skirting south of Hawai’i, weakening... Read More

Shadow of partial solar eclipse

McIDAS images of GOES-15 (GOES-West) 0.63 µm visible channel data (above) showed the west-to-east progression of the lunar umbra (the Moon’s shadow) from a partial solar eclipse that occurred on 23 October 2014. The shadow was most obvious across the northern portion of the images, moving over Alaska, the Gulf of... Read More