An anomalous ridge of high pressure developed across western North America on 23 September 2009, bringing hot and dry conditions to parts of the Pacific Northwest states — high temperatures at many locations in Oregon were in the 90s and low 100s... Read More

One of the worst dust storms in the past 70 years swept across a large part of eastern Australia on 22 September – 23 September 2009 (Daily Mail Online photos). A sequence of MTSAT-1R visible images (above) showed the progression of the large... Read More

Madison, Wisconsin received 3.63 inches (92 mm) of rainfall on 22 September 2009 — much of it within a 4 hour period — which set a record for the highest rainfall amount for any day during the month of September (additional details... Read More

A curious image artifact was noted on MTSAT-1R 3.75 µm shortwave IR imagery, in the form of a very cold “false eye” appearing  just to the right of the actual eye of Typhoon Choi-Wan (17W) in the western North Pacific Ocean . The “ghost” of the eye exhibited a... Read More