The incipient circulation of Cyclone Seroja moved very slowly across the island of Timor in Indonesia during the 03 April – 04 April 2021 period — and the MIMIC Total Precipitable Water product (above) depicted very high values over that area (just northwest of Australia).At Kupang’s El Tari Airport, precipitation amounts included 547... Read More
The animation above shows Himawari full-disk imagery from 2300 UTC on 1 April through 1140 UTC on 2 April and depicts a cluster of thunderstorms over the Pacific Ocean far to the northeast of Guam. A particular challenge in diagnosing atmospheric events over the open Pacific is the lack of... Read More
https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2021/03/HIMAWARI-8_AHI_dust_20210313_0000_to_20210316_2300_Beijinganim.mp4 Himawari-8 Dust RGB imagery, 0000 UTC 13 March 2021 through 2300 UTC 16 March 2021 The BBC reported that Beijing, the Capitol of China, was hit on 15 March by the worst sandstorm in a decade (link). The linked-to article noted pollution levels 160 times... Read More
https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2020/12/HIMAWARI-8_AHI_B13_20201214_20201215anim.mp4 Himawari-8 Clean Window Infrared (10.41 µm) imagery, 0000 UTC 14 December to 0000 UTC 16 December 2020 (Click to animate) Himawari-8 Clean Window Infrared (10.41 µm) imagery (courtesy the Japanese Meteorological Agency, JMA) from 14-15 December 2020 (click here for an animated gif) show the development of a... Read More
