Super Cylone 02A (“Gonu”) intensified rapidly in the Arabian Sea on 03-04 June 2007. EUMETSAT Meteosat-7 InfraRed imagery (above; animated GIF) showed very cold cloud-top IR brightness temperature values (-80º to -88º C, violet to purple enhancement) in the... Read More

Tropical Storm Barry formed in the eastern Gulf of Mexico on 01 June 2007 (the first official day of the Atlantic hurricane season). An AWIPS image of the GOES-12 10.7µm IR channel (above; Java animation) showed that... Read More

Hot spots on GOES-12 3.9µm and MODIS 3.7µm IR imagery (above) indicated the presence of several wildfires near the northwestern shoreline of Lake Okeechobee in southern Florida on 30 May 2007. The fires were hot enough to saturate... Read More

An AWIPS image of the GOES 10.7µm InfraRed (IR) channel (above) shows Tropical Depression Alvin (left) and Tropical Storm Barbara (right) on 30 May 2007 — both disturbances were located near the... Read More