1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images — with and without an overlay of GLM Flash Extent Density — and “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) showed showed Hurricane Delta as it intensified from a Category 2 to a Category 3 storm over the Gulf of Mexico during the daytime hours on 08 October 2020. Cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures of... Read More

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images — with and without an overlay of GLM Flash Extent Density — and “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) showed showed an impressive convective burst near the center of Tropical Storm Delta, which developed a couple of hours before the storm reached Category 1 Hurricane intensity at 0000 UTC on 06 October over the Caribbean Sea.... Read More

Hurricane Sally was moving very slowly in the north-central Gulf of Mexico at sunrise on 15 September 2020. A GOES-16 Mesoscale sector placed over the storm allowed for 1-minute imagery, and the Clean Infrared window animation, above, for the 2 hours centered on Sunrise, show a compact storm south of... Read More

Sally was upgraded to a Hurricane at 1600 UTC on 14 September. (Link)Hurricane warning have been issued along the central Gulf Coast on 14 September as strengthening tropical storm Sally approached.  MIMIC estimates of total precipitable water, above, for the 24 hours ending at 11 UTC on 14 September show the moist airmass in the... Read More