RADARSAT-2 and RCM-1 had two closely-spaced overpasses over Cyclone Freddy in the Indian Ocean early on 16 February 2023, as shown above. Eyewall speeds exceed 130 knots in the RCM-1 data! (Imagery and data are available here). The quadrant analyses for RCM-1 and for RADARSAT-2 show hurricane-force winds extending out... Read More
US Space Force EWS-G1 — formerly GOES-13 — Infrared Window (10.7 µm) images (above) showed Cyclone Freddy in the South Indian Ocean, after it re-intensified to a Category 4 storm at 0000 UTC on 15 February 2023. Freddy then briefly peaked at 145 knots at 0000 UTC on 16 February... Read More
US Space Force EWS-G1 — formerly GOES-13 — Visible (0.63 µm) and Infrared Window (10.7 µm) images (above) showed Cyclone Batsirai making landfall as a Category 3 storm along the eastern coast of Madagascar on 05 February 2022.Suomi-NPP VIIRS True Color RGB and Infrared Window (11.45 µm) images viewed using... Read More
US Space Force EWS-G1 (formerly GOES-13) Infrared Window (10.7 µm) images (above) showed Cyclone Batsirai in the South Indian Ocean — just north of the island nations of Mauritius and Réunion — during the time period it was classified as a Category 4 intensity storm (00 UTC on 02 February... Read More
