Upper-level water vapor imagery, above, shows the development of standing waves in the lee of the Hawai’ian islands. (The waves were also apparent in mid-level and low-level water vapor imagery). Wave development as shown above requires a perturbation in the vertical — achieved by southwesterly flow in the atmosphere encountering... Read More
A selection of several GOES ABI loops during 2022 showcased the diverse range of features observed, which included volcanic ash plumes, hurricanes, convection, fog, smoke, fires, dust and ice. It’s very hard to choose just one event from every month of the year, but the goal here is to show a variety of phenomena and locations that NOAA‘s GOES... Read More
A sequence of 5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) Lower-level Water Vapor (7.3 µm), Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 µm), and Upper-level Water Vapor (6.2 µm) images (above) revealed the diurnal cycle of nighttime cooling and daytime warming at the summits of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa on the Big Island of Hawai’i on 06 December 2023. This case is another... Read More
Tropical Cyclone Michuang has formed in the Indian Ocean. Michuang, which means strength or resilience, is situated in the Bay of Bengal on 2023-12-04. Michuang’s center is currently about 48 km from the east coast of the Indian subcontinent. But the bands of the system have already caused major storm... Read More
