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
H/T to Brian McNoldy for sending this out on Twitter: #Miami‘s morning sounding observed 2.18″ of precipitable water, breaking the previous 17May 12Z record of 1.97″ pic.twitter.com/7Kh4Yokovc — Brian McNoldy (@BMcNoldy) May 17, 2016 Hourly images of the MIMIC Total Precipitable Water (TPW) product (below) revealed the northward transport of deep tropical moisture from the... Read More
A plot of the Advanced Dvorak Technique (ADT) hurricane intensity estimate (above) revealed that Indian Ocean Cyclone Fantala (19S) exhibited a period of rapid intensification on 15 April 2016, reaching Category 4 intensity with maximum sustained winds of 135 knots at 14 UTC.EUMETSAT Meteosat-7 Infrared Window (11.5 µm) images (below) showed the... Read More
JMA Himawari-8 Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) revealed the presence of mesovortices within the large and well-defined eye of Category 5 Severe Cyclone Winston as the storm approached the largest Fiji islands of Vanua Levu and Viti Levu during the 19-20 February 2016 period.A longer animation of Himawari-8 Infrared Window (10.4 µm) images... Read More
