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Archive: Sep 2017

Category 4 Hurricane Jose approaches the Leeward Islands

 GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational and are undergoing testingHurricane Jose is approaching the Leeward Islands, following Irma’s path through the region earlier in the week. The Category 4 storm is shown above in 10.3 µm Infrared Imagery from GOES-16. Its satellite presentation is excellent. Geostationary Lightning... Read More

Hurricane Irma

GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational and are undergoing testingThe animation above shows Irma every 6 hours from 31 August through 8 September, using the GOES-16 “Clean Window” Imagery (10.3 µm). The animation below shows the GOES-16 Upper-Level Water Vapor Infrared Imagery (6.19 µm) (Click here for... Read More

Hurricane Irma north of Hispaniola

GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational and are undergoing testingGOES-16 Captured very strong Hurricane Irma, north of Hispaniola, early on the day on 7 September. The 7.34 µm channel shown is sensitive to water vapor, that is, water vapor in the atmosphere absorbs energy at 7.34 µm.... Read More

Hurricane Irma over the British Virgin Islands

 Suomi NPP overflew Irma as the storm moved through the British Virgin Islands. The toggle above shows the 0.64 µm Visible Image of the storm at that time, with and without annotations.  An infrared view from VIIRS, at 11.45 µm is shown below.(Imagery courtesy Will Straka, CIMSS) ... Read More