On 20 February 2025, high winds at Pago Pago International Airport (located at 14.3oS, 170.7oW) meant Hawaiian Airlines Flight 465 (an A330 with 160 passengers on board) was forced to return to Honolulu (News Article; FlightAware screenshot) without its scheduled landing in Pago Pago. American Samoa at the time was within the... Read More
It has been an active period of impactful weather in and near Australia, and today is no exception. Severe Tropical Cyclone Alfred continues to spin northeast of Queensland. The latest update from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology indicates a central pressure of 956 mb. Over the last day, it was downgraded from... Read More
Overnight in the eastern Indian ocean, a tropical storm underwent significant deepening to become Severe Tropical Cyclone Zelia. The name “tropical cyclone” might make one think of a comparatively weak storm compared to a hurricane, but that is because the names of these systems vary depending on the part of... Read More
10-minute JMA Himawari-9 AHI “Red” Visible (0.64 µm), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.4 µm) images (above) showed the formation of a pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) cloud that was spawned by a bushfire in Grampians National Park in far southeast Australia on 4th February 2025. The pyroCb exhibited cloud-top 10.4 µm... Read More
