Target Sector (2.5-minute interval) JMA Himawari-9 AHI Red Visible (0.64 µm) and Clean Infrared Window (10.4 µm) images (above) showed Super Typhoon Man-Yi as it made landfall along the Philippines island of Luzon on 17 November 2024. Low-altitude mesovortices were apparent within the eye as it was offshore — then a notable convective burst developed as the... Read More
Day Night Band imagery from the three JPSS Satellites — NOAA-21 (1515 UTC), Suomi NPP (1537 UTC) and NOAA-20 (1602 UTC) show Tropical Storm Man-Yi as it approached the southern Marianas Islands early in the morning on 13 November 2024 (Guam Time). These images were created using CSPP Software and data... Read More
Total Precipitable Water fields over the western Pacific on 10/11 November 2024, above, show 4 tropical cyclones at different stages of development across the West Pacific. The screenshot from the Joint Typhoon Warning Center, below, shows the 4 storms: Yinxing, about to make landfall in Vietnam, Toraji pulling away from... Read More
As first hinted at in this blog post, the Community Satellite Processing Package for Geostationary Data (CSPP-Geo) (https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/csppgeo/ ) group at CIMSS has released a beta version of a unix-based package that computes LightningCast probabilities. LightningCast (available online in real time for select regions) diagnoses the probability of a Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) observation of lightning within... Read More
