The toggle above shows Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.7 µm Day/Night Band and the 11.45 µm Infrared images (courtesy of William Straka, SSEC). It is unusual because two strong tropical cyclones (Category 2 Typhoon Chan-Hom on the left, and Category 4 Typhoon Nangka on the right) are captured in one satellite overpass.The Day/Night Band (DNB) image... Read More
A deepening area of low pressure (21 UTC surface analysis) was moving northeastward across the Midwest region of the US on 09 April 2015; GOES-13 0.63 µm visible images combined with the Cloud-Top Cooling Rate and Overshooting Tops... Read More
Forecasts have been consistent in the past days for a storm of historic proportions over parts of southern New England. What conditions that are present now argue for the development of a strong winter storm? The image above is the GOES Sounder Land Surface Temperature (or “Skin Temperature”) product; cold... Read More
As of 25 November 2014, much of the state of California was experiencing extreme to exceptional drought conditions. However, the development of a large occluded mid-latitude cyclone over the far eastern Pacific Ocean during the 01 December – 02 December time period began to... Read More
