Super Typhoon Nepartak (02W) formed as a tropical depression in the West Pacific Ocean south of Guam on 02-03 July 2016, and tracked northwestward until making landfall in southern Taiwan on 07 July (above). Nepartak rapidly intensified to a Category 4 storm on 05 July, peaking at Category 5 intensity on... Read More
GOES-13 (GOES-East) 4-km resolution Infrared Window (10.7 µm) images (above) showed the development of a large Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) which produced tornadoes, large hail, and damaging winds (SPC storm reports | NWS La Crosse summary) as it propagated southeastward across the Upper Midwest during the evening and overnight hours of 05 July – 06 July 2016.A sequence... Read More
Himawari-8 AHI Visible (0.64 µm) and Infrared Window (10.4 µm) images (above) showed the east-southeastward propagation of a mesoscale convective system which produced a deadly tornado in Yancheng, China around 2:30 pm local time on 23 June 2016 (Weather Underground blog). The location of Yancheng (33°23?N, 120°7?E) is denoted by the cyan... Read More
GOES-15 (GOES-West) Water Vapor (6.5 µm) images (above) showed the southeastward migration of an upper-level low across the North Slope and the eastern Brooks Range of Alaska during the 21 June – 22 June 2016 period. A potential vorticity (PV) anomaly was associated with this disturbance, which brought the dynamic... Read More
