Hourly GOES-18 Hemispheric views, above, from 2140 UTC on 1 December to 2040 UTC on 4 December, (from the CSPP Geosphere site) show the development of a strong system in the Gulf of Alaska. This system is tapping into an airstream rich in moisture that augurs for a wet period along the... Read More
Tropical Cyclone Michuang has formed in the Indian Ocean. Michuang, which means strength or resilience, is situated in the Bay of Bengal on 2023-12-04. Michuang’s center is currently about 48 km from the east coast of the Indian subcontinent. But the bands of the system have already caused major storm... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) + Total Precipitable Water (TPW) images (above) showed severe thunderstorms that developed along a cold front that moved north-northeast across Argentina and Uruguay on 01-02 December 2023. Pulses of thunderstorm overshooting tops occasionally exhibited infrared brightness temperatures in the -85 to -90ºC range (brighter white... Read More
Hourly GOES-West imagery from the CSPP Geosphere site, above (direct link to animation), shows the development of a broad Kona Low over the Hawai’ian islands. MIMIC Total Precipitable Water (TPW) fields over the eastern Pacific, below, show a very moist airmass moving into the eastern Hawai’ian islands as the Kona low develops to the west. The OSPO Percent of Normal fields at 1200... Read More
