Long-time residents of the Great Lakes region know the significant impact that the lakes can have on the local weather. One of the most familiar effects is the lake breeze. Because it takes a long time for the lakes to warm up after winter while the land heats up comparatively... Read More

5-minute PACUS Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) Mid-level Water Vapor and Upper-level Water Vapor images (above) displayed orographic waves downwind (southwest) of the Hawaiian Islands on 23 October 2025. With a ridge of high pressure north of Hawai’i (surface analyses), boundary layer flow from the northeast interacted with the topography of the island chain... Read More

This blog author loves posting about the seasons! They provide the opportunity to post some awesome full disk GOES images, but there’s more than that. The passing of the seasons has always been marked by humans, sometimes because of agricultural significance, spiritual significance, community bonding, or simply to mark time.... Read More

For the past few days, the eyes of the Philippines and Taiwan have been focused on a developing tropical system in the western Pacific. What began as a small group of convective cells northwest of Micronesia on 16 September 2025 has grown into the most intense tropical system up to... Read More