JMA 2.5-minute rapid scan Himawari-8 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.4 µm) images (above) showed Typhoon Vongfong during the 24 hours covering its rapid intensification to Category 3 intensity on 13 May (ADT | SATCON) and eventual landfall on Samar Island in the Philippines as a Category 2 storm on 14 May 2020.... Read More
JMA Himawari-8 True Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images created using Geo2Grid (above) revealed a long plume of airborne dust from the Gobi Desert, which curved cyclonically across northeastern China and the Korean Peninsula, eventually moving over the Sea of Japan on 12 May 2020.A longer day/night animation of Himawari-8 Dust RGB images (below)... Read More
GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) showed the cyclonic circulation of a Mesoscale Convective Vortex (MCV) in the Hill Country of Texas (east of San Angelo, KSJT) on 12 May 2020. The animation begins with 5-minute CONUS sector images, then transitions to 1-minute images as a Mesoscale Domain Sector is positioned over the area at... Read More
GOES-16 (GOES-East) Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 µm) images (above) showed the circulation associated with a midlatitude cyclone that moved southeastward from southern Canada across the Upper Midwest on 09 May 2020. This system brought a variety of precipitation to the region, including snow with several inches of accumulation in parts of North Dakota and Minnesota.Anomalously strong winds were... Read More
