Islands in warm tropical seas can create convection through a combination of factors that work together to foster deep convection. A recent example from the island of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands during the day of Monday 20 April 2026 illustrates this. Guadalcanal is famous as the site of a... Read More

Typhoon Sinlaku (whom we introduced to you two days earlier when it was a mere tropical storm) has undergone steady and significant intensification and has now reached Category 5 status with estimated winds as high as 150 knots (170 mph). Satellite imagery of Sinlaku depicts it as a nearly perfectly symmetric eye with a... Read More

A somewhat unusual event could be found on the morning of 10 April 2026 when twin tropical cyclones could be found in the western Pacific. Since each storm was on the other side of the equator, the two systems were rotating in opposite directions. To the north was Sinlaku, a... Read More

For the first time since the early 1970s, humans are on their way to the moon. A partly cloudy sky over Cape Canaveral and Florida’s Space Coast provided a perfect backdrop for GOES-19 mesoscale imagery. Watch the True Color RGB imagery as the most powerful rocket that NASA has ever... Read More