One of the more pronounced in a series of pulses of Saharan dust moving westward across the Atlantic Ocean was seen during the 14 July – 16 July 2012 time period. The Meteorsat-9 “split window” Saharan Air Layer (SAL) tracking product (above;... Read More

 EUMETSAT Meteosat-7 10.8 µm IR images from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site (above) showed the formation of a well-defined eye as Tropical Cyclone Giovanna (12S) intensified from a Category 3 to a Read More

McIDAS images of EUMETSAT Metosat-9 0.635 µm visible channel images (above; click image to play animation) showed a very large outbreak of airborne Saharan dust streaming off the continent of Africa and moving west-southwestward out over the adjacent waters of the eastern Atlantic Ocean on 07 February 2012. In addition,... Read More

A rapidly intensifying mid-latitude cyclone (named “Cyclone Ulli” by the Europeans | surface analysis) was responsible for a high wind event as it moved over Scotland on 03 January 2012.... Read More