A Meteosat-9 visible image at 18:00 UTC (above) showed the presence of a great deal of airborne Saharan dust over the North Atlantic Ocean on 30 June 2009. Due to a favorable forward scattering angle, this dust appeared as a large “hazy” feature between Africa and South America. Also note... Read More
Yemenia Airways Flight 626 departed from Sana in Yemen and crashed after an aborted landing attempt at Moroni in the Comoros Islands off the east coast of Africa on 29 June 2009. Meteosat-7 11.5 µm IR images (above) showed that there was a strong southerly flow over the region on that... Read More
An Air France Airbus A330-200 — Flight #447 en route from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Paris, France — crashed in the tropical Atlantic Ocean on 01 June 2009 (surface analysis). Shortly after the last radio contact about 350 miles (565 km) northeast of Natal, Brazil... Read More
As noted in the previous Blog entry, Tropical Storm Bertha became the Atlantic Basin’s second tropical storm on 03 July 2008. Apparently, Bertha set a new record for the furthest east named storm formation in the tropics (classified as south of 23.5N) prior to 1 August since 1950. It became classified as... Read More
