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30-second imagery of Hurricane Ian

By Scott Bachmeier •

GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images, with and without an overlay of GLM Flash Extent Density [click to play animated GIF | MP4]

Overlapping 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sectors provided 30-second interval GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images, with and without an overlay of GLM Flash Extent Density (above) — which showed the well-defined eye of Category 3 Hurricane Ian as it moved away from the northern coast of Cuba on 27 September 2022. Near-continuous lightning activity was seen in the eyewall region of Ian during the 7-hour period from 1300-2000 UTC.

The corresponding 30-second GOES-16 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (below) showed cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures as cold as -83ºC.

GOES-16 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images [click to play animated GIF | MP4]

In a toggle between NOAA-20 VIIRS Infrared Window (11.45 µm) and Visible (0.64 µm) images valid at 1847 UTC (below), the coldest cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures at that time were around -83ºC (darker shades of purple),

NOAA-20 VIIRS Infrared Window (11.45 µm) and Visible (0.64 µm) images, valid at 1847 UTC [click to enlarge]

Categories: GLM, GOES-16, NOAA-20, Tropical cyclones, VIIRS