Tropical Storm Fred reached hurricane intensity east of the Cape Verde Islands late in the day on 30 August 2015. As mentioned in the NHC discussion on the following morning, Fred was the first hurricane to pass through the Cape Verde Islands since 1892. While no central eye was apparent on... Read More
GOES-13 Infrared Imagery (above) for the 24 hours ending 1415 UTC on 26 August 2015 show Tropical Storm Erika approaching the Leeward Islands of the eastern Caribbean. A general increase in convection in the 24 hours shown is obvious. Visible imagery (below) from the morning of 26 August shows some overshooting... Read More
1-minute interval GOES-14 SRSO-R visible images (above; click to play MP4 animation; also available as a 130 Mbyte animated GIF) showed the eye and surrounding cloud structure of Category 2 Hurricane Danny on 21 August 2015. The hazy signature of a dust-laden Saharan Air Layer (SAL) could be seen to the west, northwest, and... Read More
The first tropical storm of the season in the eastern Atlantic (Ana, Bill and Claudette all formed over the western Atlantic) has formed from a cluster of thunderstorms that emerged from Africa. The multi-day animation, above, from GOES-13, shows the steady progress of the disorganized system across the eastern Atlantic... Read More
