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
LightningCast probabilities (from this website) over the Central Dense Overcast of Tropical Cyclone Bebinca in the western Pacific to the northwest of Guam, above, show increasing values (the island of Guam is center bottom of the imagery above): magenta are values of 75%. Lightning activity within the central core is often a... Read More
The moon was visible in Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA)‘s AHI (-9) imagery on 21 August 2024.A similar mp4 animation as above, but a quicker animation speed. Himawari-9 imaged more than just clouds over the southern Pacific Ocean when the recently full moon peeked out from behind Earth. pic.twitter.com/eXPKt4rN2I— CIRA (@CIRA_CSU) August 22, 2024 GOESWhile the GOES-R ABI... Read More
