JMA Himawari-8 Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) showed Tropical Cyclone Tiffany as it made landfall along the eastern coast of the Cape York Peninsula in Queensland, Australia on 09 January 2022. [UPDATE: just prior to making landfall around 0130 UTC on 10 January, Tiffany intensified to a Category 1 typhoon... Read More
The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha?apai volcano in Tonga violently erupted around 2030 UTC on 19 December 2021 — and a radiometrically-retrieved Ash Height product from the NOAA/CIMSS Volcanic Cloud Monitoring site (using JMA Himawari-8 data) indicated that ash was ejected as high as 16-18 km (above).Ash Loading was very high within the volcanic cloud, with particles... Read More
For the second time during its life cycle, Typhoon Rai reached Category 5 intensity (ADT | SATCON) east of Vietnam during the 18-19 December 2021 period. JMA Himawari-8 Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (above) showed cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures of -90C and colder at times around the eye. VIIRS Infrared Window... Read More
JMA Hmawari-8 True Color RGB images created using Geo2Grid (above) showed the southwestward-moving volcanic cloud associated with an eruption of Semeru –located at the center of the images — in East Java around 0750 UTC on 04 December 2021. Due to the high water and ice loading within upper portions of the... Read More
