Automated detection of overshooting tops allows identification of regions of intense convective updrafts that penetrate into the stratosphere. Overshooting tops correlate well with regions of intense rainfall and with severe weather. In tropical systems, overshooting tops are most frequent during intensification. The loop above shows overshooting tops (identified as the... Read More

A strong tropical depression has been moving west-northwestward through the Caribbean, and is north of Honduras on August 19th. The visible image loop above, using data from GOES-14 (over the Equator at 105º West Longitude), shows the disturbance at 1330 UTC on August 18th and on August 19th. Some modest... Read More

The Atlantic Tropical Season’s seventh named storm, Gert, was southeast of the island of Bermuda on Monday August 15th on a projected path that keeps it well to the east of Bermuda. The morning full-resolution visible imagery (above) from GOES-13 (left) and GOES-14 (right) show a well-defined Central Dense Overcast... Read More

The NOAA GOES-14 satellite (positioned over the Equator at 105º West longitude) was brought out of on-orbit storage for a brief period of testing, beginning on 10 August 2011. A comparison of GOES-11 (GOES-West), GOES-14, and GOES-13 (GOES-East) visible channel images (above) shows the evolution of stratus clouds along the... Read More