Category: Lightning
Hurricane Kiko rapidly intensifies to a Category 4 storm in the East Pacific Ocean

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) Visible and Infrared images (above) showed the westward motion of of Hurricane Kiko during an 8.5-hour period as the tropical cyclone was rapidly intensifying from a Category 2 storm at 1500 UTC on 03 September 2025 to a Category 3 storm at 1800 UTC and then... Read More
Dollar Lake Fire in western Wyoming produces a pyrocumulonimbus cloud

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) Clean Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images combined with the FDCA Fire Mask derived product (above) showed that the Dollar Lake Fire in western Wyoming produced a pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) cloud as it was experiencing very active fire behavior (growing in size from 1300 to 5000 acres) in... Read More
Hurricane Erin reaches Category 5 intensity north of the Leeward Islands

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Visible and Infrared images (above) showed the WNW motion of the eye of Hurricane Erin during a 7-hour period as the tropical cyclone rapidly intensified from a Category 4 storm at 0950 UTC to a Category 5 storm at 1520 UTC, north of the Leeward Islands on... Read More