Himawari-9 Upper Level Water Vapor infrared (6.25 µm) imagery for the 8 hours ending 1300 UTC on 8 February 2023 show the nighttime blossoming of convection near the center of developing tropical cyclone Gabrielle to the east of Australia in the tropical southwest Pacific. The environment of the storm is... Read More
The Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) that flies on the International Space Station (ISS) observed about 20 individual flashes in about a minute to the east of Japan on 1 February 2023, as shown in the animation above. Himawari-9 Band 13 clean window infrared (10.41 µm) imagery, below, bracketing the lightning... Read More
JMA Himawari-9 False Color RGB images from the NOAA/CIMSS Volcanic Cloud Monitoring site (above) showed plumes of SO2 (brighter shades of cyan) drifting northward, westward and southeastward from the East Epi submarine volcano, following its eruption on 01 February 2023 (local time). The differences in SO2 transport were due to directional wind shear with... Read More
Auckland, on the North Island of New Zealand, has experienced significant flooding starting on 27 January 2023. MIMIC Total Precipitable Water fields, above, (from this site, or downloadable here) show an atmospheric connection between the deep tropical moisture that is persistent between 5oS and 20oS; a filament moves with a cyclonic swirl from 26-28 January. A second region of... Read More
