After previously weakening from a Category 4 hurricane (on 04 September) to a tropical storm on 07 September (track/intensity), Florence re-intensified to become a Category 1 hurricane at 15 UTC on 09 September 2018. 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.63 µm) are shown above, with the corresponding “Clean” Infrared Window... Read More

GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm), “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) and Cloud Top Temperature product images displayed using AWIPS (above) showed the formation of a pyroCumulonimbus (pyroCb) cloud generated by the Delta Fire in Northern California late in the day on 05 September 2018. As the pyroCb cloud drifted eastward toward the California/Nevada... Read More

GOES-17 Data shown here are preliminary and non-operational! Stereoscopic views (using GOES-16 and — preliminary and non-operational — GOES-17 Visible (0.64 µm) imagery) of strengthening Tropical Storm Gordon are shown above. The stereoscopic view shows an initially sheared storm, with the surface circulation apparent becoming somewhat less sheared as convection redevelops... Read More

Potential Tropical Cyclone 7 was located between the Bahamas and Florida during the pre-sunrise hours on 03 September 2018. Toggles between VIIRS Day/Night Band (0.7 µm) and Infrared Window (11.45 µm) images from NOAA-20 at 0636 UTC and Suomi NPP at 0726 UTC are shown above (courtesy of William Straka,... Read More