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Stories by Scott Lindstrom

Heavy Rain on American Samoa

Heavy rains developed overnight over American Samoa, as depicted by the animation above from the CSPP Geosphere site. Low clouds — white/cyan in the RGB — start to show vertical development (that is, they get more and more red) shortly after 1000 UTC with more vigorous vertical growth apparent after 1100 UTC.... Read More

Tropical Invest over the eastern Pacific Ocean

Imagery from the CSPP Geosphere site (link), above, shows an area of disturbed tropical weather to the south of Mexico in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The National Hurricane Center (link, and below) notes a lack of organization with slow development forecast over the next few days. (Note that GOES-West Mesoscale... Read More

ACSPO estimates of SSTs in the Gulf of Maine

Clear skies over the Gulf of Maine close to midnight early on 27 Man 2025 allowed for the VIIRS instrument on NOAA-20 to capture a crisp view of the sea surface temperatures over that body of water. Temperatures are cooler than 50oF over the entire Gulf of Maine, with low... Read More