Composites of Infrared imagery (above) and Water Vapor imagery (below) from the AMRC site showed an anomalously strong (MSLP | 925 hPa winds | source) cyclone that was moving southeastward across the South Pacific Ocean toward the coast of Antarctica on 26 March 2019. These composites blend images from both geostationary and... Read More
The Southern Hemisphere Summer Solstice (and the Northern Hemisphere Winter Solstice) occurred at 1628 UTC on 21 December 2017. A 24-hour animation of GOES-16 Full Disk “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images ending just after the Solstice time (above) showed that the far southern latitudes remained illuminated during the entire time.Close-up... Read More
A comparison of Suomi NPP VIIRS Day/Night Band (0.7 µm) and Infrared Window (11.45 µm) images on 12 July 2017 (above; courtesy of William Straka, SSEC) shows the large iceberg (named A-68) that had separated from the Larsen-C ice shelf in Antarctica (Project MIDAS).===== 13 July Update =====A 12 July vs... Read More
The 2016 Northern Hemisphere winter / Southern Hemisphere summer solstice occurred at 1044 UTC on 21 December. EUMETSAT Meteosat-10 Visible (0.635 µm) images (above; source) showed the westward progression of the solar terminator (which separates daylight from darkness) at 3-hour intervals.Nearly the entire continent of Antarctica was illuminated by 24... Read More
