The early morning hours of 21 February 2026 brought some intense tropical convection to the vicinity of the Samoan Islands. Radar coverage is lacking in this part of the world so satellites remain the best way to monitor storms in this region for potential safety hazards. A good first stop... Read More

5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 µm) images (above) showed the evolution of a large and intense Nor’easter that produced as much as 37.9 inches of snowfall in Rhode Island (a preliminary State record) and wind gusts as high as 84 mph in New York (WPC Storm Summary) during the 22 February... Read More

48 hours of 5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Water Vapor images that included hourly plots of surface weather type (above) showed the development of a winter storm that produced up to 19.5″ of snowfall and wind gusts as high as 64 mph in eastern North Carolina (storm summary) — and even... Read More

5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Visible images (above) showed the development of at least 2 mesolow circulations in southern Lake Superior (off the coast of Upper Michigan) on 29 January 2026. The combination of Fixed Buoy and METAR surface reports implied that there was convergence over the portion of the lake... Read More