During the first 2 weeks of June 1991 the Mount Pinatubo volcano on the island of Luzon in the Philippines began to produce a series of eruptions, culminating in the climactic eruption beginning at 0227 UTC on 15 June. An animation of 5-km resolution GMS-4 Infrared Window (11.5 µm) images (above)... Read More
GOES-13 Infrared Window (10.7 µm) images (above) showed a large Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) that developed in far eastern New Mexico after 2000 UTC on 11 June 2016, then moved eastward and eventually southward over West Texas during the nighttime hours on 12 June. The MCS produced wind gusts to 75 mph and... Read More
GOES-13 (GOES-East) Visible (0.63 µm) and Infrared Window (10.7 µm) images (above) showed that a cluster of thunderstorms began to develop in far southeastern Saskatchewan around 20 UTC on 09 May 2016, which quickly grew into a large supercell thunderstorm that moved across southwestern Manitoba. This thunderstorm exhibited overshooting tops and a... Read More
The 2016 Atlantic Tropical Season’s third named storm has formed in the Gulf of Mexico just north of the Yucatan Peninsula; Colin became the earliest named “C” storm on record for that basin. MIMIC Total Precipitable Water values for the 72 hours ending at 2300 UTC on 5 June 2016, above, show the storm embedded within a deep band of tropical moisture... Read More
