Singapore Airlines Flight SQ321 encountered severe turbulence over Myanmar (flightradar24 blog) while en route from London to Singapore on 20-21 May 2024 — which resulted in dozens of injuries and 1 fatality. 10-minute interval JMA Himawari-9 AHI Visible and Infrared images (above) showed areas of deep convection developing over Myanmar, near the estimated location of... Read More

United Airlines Flight 85 (UAL85) encountered severe turbulence as it was on approach to landing at Newark Liberty International Airport (KEWR) — which injured 22 passengers, with 7 of those being transported to a hospital (media report 1 | media report 2) late in the day on 29 March 2024. Gusty NW winds may have contributed... Read More

GOES-16 (GOES-East) Upper-level Water Vapor (6.2 µm) images that included plots of Derived Motion Winds along with Pilot Reports (PIREPs) of turbulence (above) showed that there was widespread turbulence in the general vicinity of the axis of an anomalously-strong subtropical jet stream moving across the US on 09 February 2024. Wind speeds along the axis... Read More

GOES-18 (GOES-West) Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 µm) images (above) revealed a well-defined Foehn gap (narrow ribbon of darker blue enhancement) near the spine of the Sierra Nevada range in California, along with a broad “orographic crest cloud” (darker green enhancement) that extended eastward across southeast California into southern Nevada on 06 January 2024.The corresponding... Read More