The image above toggles between Advanced Clear-Sky Processor for Ocean (ACSPO) sea-surface temperatures (created with AHI data from Himawari-8) overlain with AHI Band 3 (0.64 µm) visible imagery, and AHI Band 13 (10.41 µm) clean window infrared imagery. Sheared tropical Storm Malakas — in the midst of transition to an extratropical storm — is... Read More
Typhoon Malakas in the western Pacific is shown above in Himawari-8 infrared imagery between Guam and the Philippines. It is a well-developed storm (albeit asymmetric) with an obvious eye. Level 2 Rain Rate from Himawari-8 is also shown; the heaviest precipitation is diagnosed to the southeast of the eye, and... Read More
The tropical disturbance (formerly 95W) in the western Pacific south of Guam (discussed here) has strengthened and become the second western Pacific named storm of the year: Malakas. The storm is about halfway between the islands of Guam and New Guinea. The side-by-side imagery above, showing Himawari Band 3 and... Read More
MIMIC (Morphed Integrated Microwave Imagery at CIMSS) estimates of Total Precipitable Water, above, and available in real time here, and archived here, show two cyclonic rotations on the poleward side of the deep moisture of the Intertropical Convergence Zone in the western Pacific. These two circulations are areas of interest... Read More
