Super Typhoon Bavi rapidly intensified to a Category 5 tropical cyclone (ADT | SATCON) east of Guam on 03 July 2026. Bavi was moving through a very favorable environment characterized by low values of deep-layer wind shear (above) as it was traversing progressively warmer water (Sea Surface Temperature | Ocean Heat Content). Shear, ADT, SATCON, SST... Read More

As a strong arctic cold front moved southward across the Gulf of Mexico toward southern Mexico on 04-05 February 2026, the cold front fractured as it moved inland across Mexico’s Isthmus of Tehuantepec — the cold air was then channeled southward through Chivela Pass and emerged as a Tehuano (or... Read More

48 hours of 5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Water Vapor images that included hourly plots of surface weather type (above) showed the development of a winter storm that produced up to 19.5″ of snowfall and wind gusts as high as 64 mph in eastern North Carolina (storm summary) — and even... Read More

2.5-minute Target Sector JMA Himawari-9 Infrared images (above) showed Ragasa as it intensified from a Category 4 Typhoon at 0000 UTC on 21 September 2025 to a Category 5 (140-knot) Super Typhoon at 0600 UTC and then further to a 145-knot Super Typhoon by 1200 UTC (SATCON). There was a... Read More