At 0500 UTC on 16 September 2020, Hurricane Sally rapidly intensified (ADT | SATCON) to a Category 2 storm, and soon thereafter made landfall near Gulf Shores, Alabama at 0945 UTC. During that time period, 1-minute GOES-16 Infrared imagery — with and without an overlay of GLM Flash Extent Density (above) — displayed... Read More
Hurricane Sally was moving very slowly in the north-central Gulf of Mexico at sunrise on 15 September 2020. A GOES-16 Mesoscale sector placed over the storm allowed for 1-minute imagery, and the Clean Infrared window animation, above, for the 2 hours centered on Sunrise, show a compact storm south of... Read More
Sally was upgraded to a Hurricane at 1600 UTC on 14 September. (Link)Hurricane warning have been issued along the central Gulf Coast on 14 September as strengthening tropical storm Sally approached. MIMIC estimates of total precipitable water, above, for the 24 hours ending at 11 UTC on 14 September show the moist airmass in the... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-17 (GOES-West) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm), GOES-17 Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm), Fire Temperature Red-Green-Blue (RGB) + GLM Flash Extent Density (FED) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images (above) showed the formation of a pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) cloud created by the Creek Fire in Central California on 05 September 2020. The appearance of a few brief GLM FED pixels (2026 UTC | 2117 UTC)... Read More
