The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on a strong Tropical Depression in the western Caribbean Sea, centered to the west of Jamaica — in the southeast corner of the image above. This system is at the edge of the observing capabilities from the CIMSS Direct Broadcast antenna, but the... Read More
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) winds over the northwest Pacific, above, derived from Radar Constellation Mission (RCM) Satellite #2, shows a narrow ribbon of strong winds (>30 knots) stretching from 50 N, 138 W towards 53 N, 140 W. What kind of cloud imagery is associated with this wind feature?Near-sunrise visible... Read More
Overpasses from NOAA-20 (0601 and 0741 UTC) bracket an overpass from Suomi-NPP (0651 UTC), above, to provide excellent night time visual imagery animation over Hurricane Henri as it moved northward towards landfall over southern New England. It is difficult to pinpoint the center of the storm in this imagery. Per the National Hurricane Center,... Read More
Training thunderstorms early Saturday caused historic rains and devastating (and deadly) flash floods early on Saturday morning 21 August 2021. (Click here for a listing of hourly precipitation totals at McEwen, TN; this excellent tweet from Tomer Burg shows the radar in the region). Were there satellite products that described the environment, rich in... Read More
