GOES-16 Visible Imagery, above, shows Tropical Storm Henri east of Florida and to the north of the Bahamas. Cirrus outflow is well-developed to the east and south, but the storm is sheared; the surface circulation is near the northwestern edge of the ongoing deep convection. Persistent northerly shear, as shown... Read More
Grace (then a tropical storm) is shown in AWIPS above, in between Jamaica and the Caymans, in Day Night Band Visible imagery, along with VIIRS I05 Infrared imagery, from 0626 UTC, using data from the Direct Broadcast site at CIMSS. The coldest cloud tops with the most vigorous convection, shown... Read More
AOML (The Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory) maintains a Direct Broadcast antenna site that holds satellite imagery (created using CSPP — the Community Satellite Processing Package) created when a tropical system — such as Elsa — is within the download footprint of the AOML antenna. This imagery — particularly in the microwave... Read More
2.5-minute rapid scan JMA Himawari-8 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.4 µm) images (above) showed Cyclone Damien making landfall as a Category 2 storm in Western Australia on 08 February 2020. Well west of the storm center, winds gusted to 49 knots at Barrow Island (YBWX). The eye remained intact for several hours... Read More
