US Space Force EWS-G1 (formerly GOES-13) Infrared Window (10.7 µm) images (above) showed Category 3 Cyclone Freddy making landfall along the east coast of Madagascar on 21 February 2023.According to products from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site, during the 12-15 hours leading up to landfall Freddy was traversing warm water with Sea Surface Temperature... Read More
US Space Force EWS-G1 — formerly GOES-13 — Infrared Window (10.7 µm) images (above) showed Cyclone Freddy in the South Indian Ocean, after it re-intensified to a Category 4 storm at 0000 UTC on 15 February 2023. Freddy then briefly peaked at 145 knots at 0000 UTC on 16 February... Read More
A sequence of 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) images from all 16 ABI spectral bands along with Rocket Plume RGB images (above) displayed signatures of the launch of EUMETSAT MTG-I1 from the Guiana Space Centre near Kourou, French Guyana (synoptic station identifier 814030) on 13 December 2022. The Ariane-5 rocket booster’s hot thermal... Read More
A storm named Eunice has developed over the British Isles and is causing severe winds, up to 122 mph observed at the surface. The storm is associated with a very active jet stream in the North Atlantic. Eunice follows another storm, Dudley, that hit England, Ireland, and Scotland on Wednesday... Read More
