1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images — with and without an overlay of GLM Flash Extent Density (above) showed Category 4 Hurricane Laura as it made landfall near Cameron, Louisiana around 0600 UTC on 27 August 2020. The GLM data showed intermittent lightning activity along the inner eyewall region of the hurricane.Strong outer convective bands ahead... Read More

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-17 (GOES-West) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images (above) showed  Category 1 Hurricane Douglas as it moved just north of Hawai’i during the day on 26 July 2020 (the boundary of the Mesoscale Sector was abruptly shifted westward at 1658 UTC). The coldest cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures were around -80ºC.The apparent storm... Read More

Tropical Cyclone Harold made landfall on Vanuatu’s largest island of Espiritu Santo as a Category 4 storm (ADT | SATCON) on 05 April 2020. JMA Himawari-8 Infrared Window (10.4 µm) images (above) showed the emergence of a well defined eye — which exhibited some trochoidal motion. Cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures... Read More

 GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images (above) showed Hurricane Lorenzo as it rapidly intensified from a Category 2 storm at 00 UTC to a Category 4 storm by 15 UTC (ADT | SATCON) on 26 September 2019.A toggle between VIIRS True Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) and Infrared Window (11.45 µm)... Read More