Super Typhoon Atsani reached Category 5 intensity early in the day on 19 August 2015; the storm displayed a nearly annular eyewall signature during much of the day on Himawari-8 infrared (10.4 µm) images (above; click image to play MP4 movie file). A large (64 Mbyte) animated GIF is available... Read More
Himawari-8 captured the trek of Typhoons Goni (on the left) and Atsani (on the right) as they moved across the central Pacific Ocean on Monday 17 August 2015 (animation also available here as an mp4). Goni has passed through the northern Mariana Islands and is forecast to fluctuate in intensity... Read More
Himawari-8 10.35 µm infrared imagery showed an unusual (for infrared imagery) double-eyewall structure in Typhoon Nangka over the western Pacific Ocean on 13 July 2015. For such a feature to appear in infrared imagery, the secondary circulations of both the inner and outer eyewall need to be intense enough to... Read More
The video above shows 5 hours of Himawari-8 10.35 µm Infrared imagery from Typhoon Chan-Hom as it moves through the Yellow Sea towards the coast of China (original animated gif here; mp4 here). The location of Shanghai is indicated in the first frame, and this blog post talks about the history... Read More
