Hurricane Nicholas made landfall on the Gulf Coast shortly after 0530 UTC on 14 September. It is a challenge to determine the storm center from the animation above, although deep convection is suggestive of its location. Note the collapse of deep convection as well at the end of the animation. Radar... Read More
The early afternoon NOAA-20 overpass over the Great Lakes saw mostly clear skies, allowing for an accurate measurement — from satellite — of the lake surface temperatures, scaled in the image above to be between 55º and 75º F. Western Lake Erie has the warmest temperatures (peaking just below 75º,... Read More
The animation above (created using Geo2Grid) with a 3-h time step shows the approach of a mid-latitute shortwave trough (that produced large hail over Wisconsin on Tuesday 7 September; SPC Storm Reports) to Hurricane Larry over the tropical Atlantic. The Potential Vorticity anomaly associated with the mid-latitude trough (moving from the western Great Lakes on the 8th... Read More
Tropical Storm Larry has formed in the far eastern Atlantic Ocean. The large-scale view of the tropical Atlantic, shown above, taken from CSPP Geosphere (direct link to the imagery) shows Larry west of Africa. Tropical depression Kate is also apparent, and that storm again has convection near its center as shear there has relaxed. Kate... Read More
