he NWS Forecast Office in Honolulu late on Thursday (8:33 PM local time 11 April, or 0633 UTC on 12 April) issued a Severe Thunderstorm warning for the island of Niihau to the southwest of Kauai. Subsequently, flood warnings were issued for Kauai. The animation above (from the southwest corner of the GOES-18 PACUS domain) shows the... Read More
GOES-16 Clean Window infrared imagery (Band 13, 10.3 µm), above, shows a convective line moving into Louisiana around sunrise on 10 April 2024. SPC Storm Reports (below, and here), show tornadoes over extreme southwest Louisiana at around 1130 UTC on 10 April 2024 (Note the peak wind of 55 knots at the Lake Charles LA airport at 1136 UTC, within... Read More
The Samoan Islands are again within a moisture-rich airmass, as shown by the MIMIC estimates of Total Precipitable Water shown below. The MIMIC fields do not show obvious gradient that might be used to estimate when rains might be especially widespead. The airport at Pago Pago American Samoa has had a little under 2″ of rain the 24 hours ending at around 9 AM Samoa Standard Time on 9 April. Flood Warnings were posted... Read More
Contributors: Scott Bachmeier, Mat Gunshor, Rick Kohrs, Margaret Mooney, Jim Nelson, Tim Schmit, and Eric Verbeten.The eclipse starts in the GOES-West footprint, as shown above (Here’s a link to a Full-Disk GOES-West animation). By 1700 UTC, however, GOES-East starts to view it, as shown below (Here’s a link to a Full-Disk GOES-East animation).Here are CIMSS Natural Color animations from GOES-West and GOES-East Full Disk... Read More
