Typhoon Chan-Hom in the western Pacific Ocean is forecast to strengthen and move towards Taiwan later this week. A Himawari-8 target sector is viewing the storm today, and a 5-hour animation with a 2.5-minute time step (10.35 µm infrared imagery) is shown above. Very cold overshooting tops (the yellow enhancement... Read More
The Kuchinoerabu-jima volcano in Japan experienced a violent eruption beginning around 00:59 UTC on 29 May 2015 — the expanding volcanic cloud was captured by 0.5-km resolution Himawari-8 AHI 0.64 µm visible channel images (above; click image to play animation; also available as an MP4 movie file). A mid-layer volcanic cloud was... Read More
Singapore Airlines Flight SQ836 was en route to Shanghai from Singapore on 23 May 2015 when it lost power from both engines at an altitude of 39,000 feet over the South China Sea, not far south-southeast of Hong Kong (Aviation Herald). The aircraft lost about 13,000 feet in altitude (above) before... Read More
Himawari-8 infrared imagery (above, at 2.5-minute time steps and available here as an mp4) shows the development of an eye in Typhoon Dolphin shortly after 1400 UTC when the storm was northwest of Guam. With the subsequent arrival of daylight, mesovortices were clearly seen within the eye on 2.5-minute interval rapid scan visible images... Read More
