2.5-minute Target Sector JMA Himawari-9 AHI Infrared images (above) showed Super Typhoon Sinlaku as it rapidly intensified to a 160-knot Category 5 storm (ADT | SATCON) by 1800 UTC on 12 April 2026, southeast of Saipan (station identifier PGSN) in the Mariana Islands. Cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures began to gradually... Read More

10-minute Full Disk scan JMA Himawari-9 AHI Infrared images (above) showed Cyclone Maila as it rapidly intensified to a 125-kt Category 4 storm (ADT | SATCON) just southwest of the Solomon Islands on 07 April 2026. Maila became the most intense tropical cyclone on record that far north in the... Read More

2.5-minute Target Sector JMA Himawari-9 AHI Infrared images (above) showed Cyclone Narelle as it was rapidly intensifying over the Coral Sea on 18 March 2026 — becoming a Category 2 storm by 1200 UTC, a Category 3 storm by 1800 UTC and a Category 4 storm by 0000 UTC (ADT... Read More

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) GeoColor RGB images with an overlay of Next Generation Fire System (NGFS) Fire Detection polygons (above) displayed the thermal signatures and daytime smoke plume associated with the Morrill Fire (Watch Duty | InciWeb) in the Nebraska Panhandle on 12 March 2026 (the initial NGFS detection was at 1939 UTC). Surface observations in the vicinity... Read More