Earlier this week we introduced you to Lala, a Pacific tropical cyclone. In our first post, Lala was a tropical storm that was setting its sights on Hawaii. Some interesting things have happened since then. First, Lala strengthened to hurricane intensity as it approached the big island of Hawaii. Here’s an animation of the... Read More

The first half of August 2026 has brought repeated heavy rainfall to the state of Indiana, with the area in and around the capital city of Indianapolis experiencing particularly strong flooding. Numerous roads are closed, and a bridge in Carmel, IN, just north of Indianapolis, has been washed out. Multiple fatalities have already been reported, and... Read More

Eyes around the world were turned toward Greenland, Iceland, and Spain as a total solar eclipse tracked across parts of the Northern Hemisphere yesterday, 12 August 2026. If you haven’t already seen the CIMSS Blog post on yesterday’s total solar eclipse from the GOES perspective, be sure to check it out. However, this was a... Read More

Wildfires continue to burn across large portions of the Pacific Northwest; you can see our earlier posts about these fires throughout the previous week. Persistent drought across the west has fostered conditions that are ideal for wildfire growth. However, the impact of these fires is being felt much further to the east as... Read More