A strong tropical wave near 50 W Longitude in the central Atlantic has become a Tropical Depression. The enhanced infrared image above shows a region of active convection (as signified by the overshooting tops designated by yellow circles) near the center of the system. (Current imagery of overshooting tops can... Read More

A major flooding event occurred in the Beijing, China area on 21 July 2012, as the heaviest rainfall in over 60 years caused at least 77 fatalaties, cancelled over 500 airport flights, and forced more than 65,000 people to be evacuated. Much of the city averaged around 7-9 inches of... Read More

The New Moon on 18 July means that no visible light reflected from the Moon can illuminate clouds, and the day/night band on the Suomi-NPP satellite can therefore view any clouds only with difficulty. However, it still views city lights, and illuminated roads, or gas field flares, among other things.... Read More

The GOES-13 Sounder imagery has shown signatures intermittently over the past 4 days that suggest a Filter Wheel Anomaly is ongoing. The image above is from 0246 UTC on 17 July 2012. Similar events occurred on 16 July (at 0046 and 1446 UTC), on 15 July (at 2346 UTC), on 14 July... Read More