December 2023 through February 2024 was a period of exceptional wetness over the Samoan Islands. Pago Pago received 68″ of rain during that period (this was the 4th greatest total since the 1950s!!). In the past week, however, the moisture of the South Pacific Convergence Zone has shifted away from... Read More
The Smokehouse Creek fire (inciweb link) as of 29 February is the largest fire in Texas history. VIIRS True-Color imagery above shows an extensive smoke plume (and a lot of other clouds!) over the eastern part of the north Texas Panhandle between 1830 and 2015 UTC on 27 February. Surface observations... Read More
Altimetric measurements of the sea surface (from this site), above, show a region of very tall waves early on 14 February, with Significant Wave Heights exceeding 30 feet. Those waves are also show below in an analysis from OPC (link); they are southwest of a hurricane-force low (surface analysis; here is a toggle between the Significant Wave... Read More
On February 12, 2024, much of inland Alaska is experiencing warnings for wintery precipitation, while coastal Alaska is under warnings for storms, gales, and heavy freezing spray. Southeastern Alaska is also under a small craft advisory.The low-pressure system associated with this inclement weather is seen easily from the GOES-West imagery.... Read More
